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y separately published work icon Upsurge : A Novel single work   novel  
Issue Details: First known date: 1934... 1934 Upsurge : A Novel
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Adaptations

form y separately published work icon Upsurge : Adapted for the Screen Judith Pugh , Australia : CM Film Productions , 1996 Z1120618 1996 single work film/TV

Banned in Australia

Censorship Agencies: Book Censorship Board
Decision: 20 Nov 1934
NAA Source: A3023; Folder 1933/34
Censorship notes: Released at the general review on 24.04.1958.

Notes

  • Considered pornographic by reviewers when it was first published, Upsurge was the first Australian novel to be banned by the Commonwealth Book Censorship Board (1934).
  • Available as a sound recording and adapted for the screen.

Contents

* Contents derived from the Nedlands, Inner Perth, Perth, Western Australia,:UWA Publishing , 1986 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Introduction, Richard Nile , single work criticism (p. ix-xxix)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      John Long ,
      1934 .
      image of person or book cover 5956507562900837535.jpg
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      Extent: 286, [1], 32p.p.
      Note/s:
      • The text of the novel is followed by John Long's 32-page Spring 1934 book catalogue.
    • Nedlands, Inner Perth, Perth, Western Australia,: UWA Publishing , 1986 .
      Extent: xxix, 287p.p.
      Edition info: Facsimile ed.
      Note/s:
      • Preface and introduction by Richard A. Nile.
      • Dedication: to Brian de Garis
      ISBN: 0855642440

Works about this Work

The Modernist Impulse : Peter Cowan's Early Fiction Julie Lewis , 1993 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 131 1993; (p. 58-64)
Myths of Innocence and Experience Bruce Bennett , 1991 single work criticism
— Appears in: An Australian Compass : Essays on Place and Direction in Australian Literature 1991; (p. 75-87) Populous Places : Australian Cities and Towns 1992; (p. 238-253)
In Place Bruce Bennett , 1991 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 131 1991; (p. 5-8)
Documenting and Criticising Society David Carter , 1988 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , vol. 13 no. 4 1988; (p. 370-389) Always Almost Modern : Australian Print Cultures and Modernity 2013; (p. 167-185)
Introduction Richard Nile , 1986 single work criticism
— Appears in: Upsurge : A Novel 1986; (p. ix-xxix)
Untitled Peter Cowan , 1986 single work review
— Appears in: Fremantle Arts Review , October vol. 1 no. 10 1986; (p. 14)

— Review of Upsurge : A Novel J. M. Harcourt , 1934 single work novel
A Reader's Notebook Nettie Palmer , 1934 single work review
— Appears in: All About Books , 14 August vol. 6 no. 8 1934; (p. 153-154)

— Review of Landtakers : The Story of an Epoch Brian Penton , 1934 single work novel ; Cobbers : A Personal Record of a Journey from Essex, in England, to Australia, Tasmania and Some of the Reefs and Islands in the Coral Sea, Made in the Years 1930, 1931 and 1932 Thomas Wood , 1934 single work autobiography ; Eight Plays by Australians 1934 anthology drama ; Upsurge : A Novel J. M. Harcourt , 1934 single work novel ; The Silver Dog Alison McDougall , 1934 single work novel ; The Yellow Joss : And Other Tales Ion L. Idriess , 1934 selected work short story ; Ambition : An Autobiographical Novel Eric Muspratt , 1934 single work novel
The Rich v. the Rest Veronica Sen , 1986 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 24 August 1986; (p. 12)

— Review of Lantana Lane Eleanor Dark , 1959 single work novel ; Upsurge : A Novel J. M. Harcourt , 1934 single work novel
Upsurge : J.M. Harcourt Anonymous (fl. 1934) , 1934 single work review
— Appears in: Pandemonium , December vol. 1 no. 11 1934; (p. 16)

— Review of Upsurge : A Novel J. M. Harcourt , 1934 single work novel
Upsurge A. C. T. , 1935 single work review
— Appears in: Manuscripts : A Quarterly of Arts and Letters , May no. 13 1935; (p. 118-119)

— Review of Upsurge : A Novel J. M. Harcourt , 1934 single work novel
Introduction Richard Nile , 1986 single work criticism
— Appears in: Upsurge : A Novel 1986; (p. ix-xxix)
The Censor as Literary Critic Robert Darby , 1986 single work criticism
— Appears in: Westerly , December vol. 31 no. 4 1986; (p. 30-40)
Myths of Innocence and Experience Bruce Bennett , 1991 single work criticism
— Appears in: An Australian Compass : Essays on Place and Direction in Australian Literature 1991; (p. 75-87) Populous Places : Australian Cities and Towns 1992; (p. 238-253)
J.M. Harcourt and the Nineteen-Thirties Peter Cowan , 1984 single work criticism
— Appears in: Westerly , July vol. 29 no. 2 1984; (p. 93-100)
In Place Bruce Bennett , 1991 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 131 1991; (p. 5-8)
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