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    Playacting happiness: tragicomedy in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park and Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford

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    Author
    Udden, Meryem A.
    Chair
    Carr, Rich
    Committee
    Heyne, Eric
    Reilly, Terence
    Keyword
    Jane Austen
    Mansfield Park
    Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
    Cranford
    English drama
    tragicomedy
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    http://hdl.handle.net/11122/11295
    Abstract
    This thesis examines tragicomedy in two 19th Century British novels, Jane Austen's Mansfield Park and Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford. Both narratives have perceived happy endings; however, tragedy lies underneath the surface. With Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream as a starting point, playacting becomes the vehicle through which tragedy can be discovered by the reader. Throughout, I find examples in which playacting begins as a comedic act, but acquires tragic potential when parents enter the scene. Here, I define tragedy not as a dramatic experience, but rather seemingly small injustices that, over time, cause more harm than good. In Mansfield Park, the tragedy is parental neglect and control. In Cranford, the tragedy is parental abuse. For both narratives, characters are unable to experience life fully, and past parental injuries cannot be redeemed. While all the children in the narratives experience some form of parental neglect, the marginalized children are harmed more than the others. In addition, I find that lifelong loneliness is a common theme in both narratives, showing that tragedy can lead to grief experienced in isolation.
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    Thesis (M.A.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2020
    Date
    2020-05
    Type
    Thesis
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