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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (254 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442686014
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Make the Night HideousLOC classification:
  • GT2713.A2 G74 2010
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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