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

Clean, tight, unmarked; slight wear to inside corners; otherwise absolute minimal wear; appears unread; "'Make the night hideous' is a journalistic convention for referring to charivari. Charivaris almost always involve late-night house visits accompanied by an unmusical racket as well as traditional pranks or a demand for money. The ritual means - the actual tools and/or methods used to construct the practice - are consistent, despite the fact that earlier forms of charivari expressed disapproval and later ones approval of those they targeted. .. Historically, the marriages at issue were those that involved partners of disparate ages, older couples, windows and/or widowers, different racialized groups, and rarely, different religions. More recent charivaris are for those whose marriages the community approves of, expressed as a 'welcome' to the newlyweds." - from the introduction
Near Fine
Soft cover
University of Toronto Press
2010
Toronto, ON