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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Greenhill, Pauline, 1955-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2010
Colección:Canadian social history series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "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.