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Make the Night Hideous : Discourses of Four 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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Greenhill, Pauline, 1955-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, 2010
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo

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