Description:
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.
Brief description: Pauline Greenhill is a professor in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Winnipeg.
Review Quotes: '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 and intriguing.'--Patricia Sawin, Department of Anthropology and Program in Folklore, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill