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

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.

List of contents

List of Illustrations

Preface and Acknowledgements

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. icturing Community: Les and Edna Babcock's Shivaree, Avonlea, Saskatchewan, 1940
6. "Great Fun"/"A Nuisance:" Seeking Recent Shivaree Discourses

References Cited

About the author

by Pauline Greenhill

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Pauline Greenhill, Johanne Sloan
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.11.2010
• EAN: 9781442640771
• ISBN: 978-1-4426-4077-1
• 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