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Adaptations
- form y Upsurge : Adapted for the Screen 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
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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).
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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, single work criticism (p. ix-xxix)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
-
The Modernist Impulse : Peter Cowan's Early Fiction
1993
single work
criticism
biography
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 131 1993; (p. 58-64) -
Myths of Innocence and Experience
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
1991
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 131 1991; (p. 5-8) -
Documenting and Criticising Society
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
1986
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Upsurge : A Novel 1986; (p. ix-xxix)
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Untitled
1986
single work
review
— Appears in: Fremantle Arts Review , October vol. 1 no. 10 1986; (p. 14)
— Review of Upsurge : A Novel 1934 single work novel -
A Reader's Notebook
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 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 1934 single work autobiography ; Eight Plays by Australians 1934 anthology drama ; Upsurge : A Novel 1934 single work novel ; The Silver Dog 1934 single work novel ; The Yellow Joss : And Other Tales 1934 selected work short story ; Ambition : An Autobiographical Novel 1934 single work novel -
The Rich v. the Rest
1986
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 24 August 1986; (p. 12)
— Review of Lantana Lane 1959 single work novel ; Upsurge : A Novel 1934 single work novel -
Upsurge : J.M. Harcourt
1934
single work
review
— Appears in: Pandemonium , December vol. 1 no. 11 1934; (p. 16)
— Review of Upsurge : A Novel 1934 single work novel -
Upsurge
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 1934 single work novel -
Introduction
1986
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Upsurge : A Novel 1986; (p. ix-xxix) -
The Censor as Literary Critic
1986
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Westerly , December vol. 31 no. 4 1986; (p. 30-40) -
Myths of Innocence and Experience
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
1984
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Westerly , July vol. 29 no. 2 1984; (p. 93-100) -
In Place
1991
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 131 1991; (p. 5-8)
Last amended 18 Aug 2016 16:15:31
Settings:
- Perth, Western Australia,
- 1930s
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