TY - BOOK AU - Sommerville,Diane Miller ED - Project Muse. TI - Aberration of Mind : : Suicide and Suffering in the Civil War–Era South / SN - 9781469643588 PY - 2018///] CY - Chapel Hill PB - The University of North Carolina Press KW - Suicide KW - Social aspects KW - fast KW - Social conditions KW - Psychological aspects KW - HISTORY KW - Military KW - United States KW - bisacsh KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE KW - Public Policy KW - Social Services & Welfare KW - Social Security KW - Aspect social KW - États-Unis (Sud) KW - Histoire KW - 19e siecle KW - Southern States KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Conditions sociales KW - États-Unis KW - 1861-1865 (Guerre de Secession) KW - Aspect psychologique KW - Civil War, 1861-1865 KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - A burden too heavy to bear: war trauma, suicide, and Confederate soldiers -- A dark doom to dread: women, suicide, and suffering on the Confederate homefront -- De lan' of sweet dreams: suffering and suicide among the enslaved -- Somethin' went hard agin her mind: suffering, suicide, and emancipation -- The accursed ills I cannot bear: Confederate veterans, suicide, and suffering in the defeated South -- The distressed state of the country: Confederate men and the navigation of economic, political, and emotional ruin in the postwar South -- All is dark before me: Confederate women and the postwar landscape of suffering and suicide -- Cumberer of the earth: the secularization of suffering and suicide; Open Access N2 - This book studies the meaning of suicide in the nineteenth-century South and how that meaning changed, if at all, as a result of the Civil War and its aftermath. It looks at the whole South while providing a more thorough examination than previous books of the dynamics of both the racial and gendered dimensions of suicide in the South during the long Civil War Era UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/61411/ ER -