Make the Night Hideous : : Discourses of Four Canadian Charivaris, 1881-1940 /

Make the Night Hideous : : Discourses of Four Canadian Charivaris, 1881-1940 / / Pauline Greenhill.

The charivari is a loud, late-night surprise house-visiting custom from members of a community, usually to a newlywed couple, accompanied by a quête (a request for a treat or money in exchange for the noisy performance) and/or pranks. Up to the first decades of the twentieth century, charivaris were...

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Greenhill, Pauline,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. 'Murder Most Foul': The Wetherill Charivari, Near Ottawa, 1881
  • 3. 'A Man's Home Is His Castle': Death at a Manitoba Charivari, 1909
  • 4. 'What You Do in Daylight in Eyes of Public Is No Harm': Person, Place, and Defamation in Nova Scotia, 1917
  • 5. Picturing Community: Les and Edna Babcock's Shivaree, Avonlea, Saskatchewan, 1940
  • 6. 'Great Fun' / 'A Nuisance': Seeking Recent Shivaree Discourses
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
  • The Canadian Social History Series

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