Make the Night Hideous: Four English-Canadian Charivaris, 1881-1940
Pauline Greenhill
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hardcover. 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. Series: Canadian Social History Series. Num Pages: 272 pages, 17 halftones. BIC Classification: HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 21. Weight in Grams: 446.
The charivari is a loud, late-night surprise house-visiting custom from members of a community, usually to a newlywed couple, accompanied by a quête (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 most part enacted to express disapproval of the relationship that was their focus, such as those between individuals of different ages, races, or religions. While later charivaris maintained the same rituals, their meaning changed to a welcoming of the marriage.
Make the Night Hideous explores this mysterious transformation using ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Series
Canadian Social History Series
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781442640771
SKU
V9781442640771
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About Pauline Greenhill
Pauline Greenhill is a professor in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Winnipeg.
Reviews for Make the Night Hideous: Four English-Canadian Charivaris, 1881-1940
'Pauline Greenhill excels at using evidence culled from traditional activities to make trenchant observations about the role of culture in Canadians' lives. Make the Night Hideous provides insight into both the historical development of the charivari and the discourses that emerged in attempts to define and judge this practice. The extraordinary depth of Greenhill's research makes this book uniquely impressive ... Read more