'We're all strangers': post-war anxiety in Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap
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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. https://doi.org/10.3172/CLU.32.2.115
Article Title | 'We're all strangers': post-war anxiety in Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap |
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ERA Journal ID | 11759 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | |
Author | Gildersleeve, Jessica |
Journal Title | Clues: a journal of detection |
Journal Citation | 32 (2), pp. 115-123 |
Number of Pages | 9 |
Year | 2014 |
Place of Publication | Jefferson, NC, USA |
ISSN | 0742-4248 |
1940-3046 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.3172/CLU.32.2.115 |
Web Address (URL) | http://mcfarland.metapress.com/content/95077237w570l578/?p=322c7b46f8624db496bcb68af4467da4&pi=12 |
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. |
Keywords | anxiety, Christie, Agatha, The Mousetrap, war, women |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 470504. British and Irish literature |
Public Notes | Files associated with this item cannot be displayed due to copyright restrictions. |
Byline Affiliations | School of Arts and Communication |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
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