'We're all strangers': post-war anxiety in Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap

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

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)
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
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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