Make the Night Hideous : Discourses of Four Canadian Charivaris, 1881-1940.
Greenhill, Pauline.
Make the Night Hideous : Discourses of Four Canadian Charivaris, 1881-1940. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (254 pages)
Cover -- 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Make the Night Hideousexplores mysterious transformation of the charivari using four detailed case studies from different time periods and locations across English Canada, as well as first-person accounts of more recent charivari participants.
9781442686014
Shivaree-Canada-History.
Marriage customs and rites-Canada-History.
Canada-Social life and customs.
Electronic books.
GT2713.A2 G74 2010
Make the Night Hideous : Discourses of Four Canadian Charivaris, 1881-1940. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (254 pages)
Cover -- 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Make the Night Hideousexplores mysterious transformation of the charivari using four detailed case studies from different time periods and locations across English Canada, as well as first-person accounts of more recent charivari participants.
9781442686014
Shivaree-Canada-History.
Marriage customs and rites-Canada-History.
Canada-Social life and customs.
Electronic books.
GT2713.A2 G74 2010