Gildersleeve, Jessica ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7694-5615
(2014)
'We're all strangers': post-war anxiety in Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap.
Clues: A Journal of Detection, 32 (2).
pp. 115-123.
ISSN 0742-4248
Official URL: http://mcfarland.metapress.com/content/95077237w57...
Abstract
Agatha Christie's play, The Mousetrap (1952), disturbs the middlebrow, middle-class conventions of Golden Age detective fiction. By introducing an explicit suspicion of personas and roles, Christie's play points to a postwar anxiety that wartime freedom undermined the capacity for surveillance, putting citizens—especially women—at risk.
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Item Type: | Article (Commonwealth Reporting Category C) |
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Refereed: | Yes |
Item Status: | Live Archive |
Additional Information: | Permanent restricted access to Published version, in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. |
Faculty/School / Institute/Centre: | Historic - Faculty of Business, Education, Law and Arts - School of Arts and Communication (1 Jul 2013 - 28 Feb 2019) |
Faculty/School / Institute/Centre: | Historic - Faculty of Business, Education, Law and Arts - School of Arts and Communication (1 Jul 2013 - 28 Feb 2019) |
Date Deposited: | 24 Oct 2014 05:00 |
Last Modified: | 05 Mar 2018 07:34 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | anxiety, Christie, Agatha, The Mousetrap, war, women |
Fields of Research (2008): | 20 Language, Communication and Culture > 2005 Literary Studies > 200503 British and Irish Literature |
Fields of Research (2020): | 47 LANGUAGE, COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE > 4705 Literary studies > 470504 British and Irish literature |
Socio-Economic Objectives (2008): | C Society > 95 Cultural Understanding > 9505 Understanding Past Societies > 950504 Understanding Europe's Past |
Identification Number or DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3172/CLU.32.2.115 |
URI: | http://eprints.usq.edu.au/id/eprint/26236 |
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