Make the Night Hideous - Four English-Canadian Charivaris, 1881-1940

Informationen zum Autor by Pauline Greenhill Klappentext Make the Night Hideous explores 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. Zusammenfassung Make the Night Hideous explores 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction "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 icturing Community: Les and Edna Babcock's Shivaree, Avonlea, Saskatchewan, 1940 "Great Fun"/"A Nuisance:" Seeking Recent Shivaree Discourses References Cited

Product details

• Authors: Pauline Greenhill, Johanne Sloan
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.11.2010
• EAN: 9781442610156
• ISBN: 978-1-4426-1015-6
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Canadian Cinema; Canadian Social History Series; Canadian Social History; Canadian Social History Series; Canadian Social History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous