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

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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.
Subjects:
Shivaree.
Marriage customs and rites.
HISTORY > Canada > Post-Confederation (1867- )
REFERENCE > Weddings.
Mariage > Rites et ceremonies > Canada > Histoire.
Charivari (Coutume) > Canada > Histoire.
Marriage customs and rites > Canada > History.
Shivaree > Canada > History.
Canada.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • "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.

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