Make the night hideous : four English Canadian charivaris, 1881-1940 /
The charivari is a loud, late-night surprise house-visiting custom from members of a community, usually to a newlywed couple, accompanied by 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 for the m...
| Основен автор: | Greenhill, Pauline, 1955- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Toronto [Ont.] :
University of Toronto Press,
℗♭2010
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| Серия: |
Canadian social history series.
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Make the Night Hideous : Four English-Canadian Charivaris, 1881-1940. |
Съдържание:
- "Murder most foul" : the Wetherill charivari, near Ottawa, 1881
- "A man's home is his castle" : death at a Manitoba charivari, 1909
- "What you do in daylight in eyes of public is no harm" : person, place, and defamation in Nova Scotia, 1917
- Picturing community : Les and Edna Babcock's shivaree, Avonlea, Saskatchewan, 1940
- "Great fun"/"a nuisance" : seeking recent shivaree discourses.