Gildersleeve, Jessica (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
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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 / Department / School: | Current - Faculty of Business, Education, Law and Arts - School of Arts and Communication |
| 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 : | 20 Language, Communication and Culture > 2005 Literary Studies > 200503 British and Irish Literature |
| Socio-Economic Objective: | C Society > 95 Cultural Understanding > 9505 Understanding Past Societies > 950504 Understanding Europe's Past |
| Identification Number or DOI: | 10.3172/CLU.32.2.115 |
| URI: | http://eprints.usq.edu.au/id/eprint/26236 |
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