Pauline Greenhill

Make the Night Hideous

Four English-Canadian Charivaris, 1881-1940

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 145mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781442640771
• ISBN-10: 1442640774
• Artikelnr.: 28888136

Autorenporträt

Pauline Greenhill is a professor in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Winnipeg.

Inhaltsangabe

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