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Issue Details: First known date: 1974... 1974 The Electrical Experience : A Discontinuous Narrative
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Sydney, New South Wales,:Angus and Robertson , 1974 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
A Black, Black Birth, Frank Moorhouse , single work short story (p. 3-10)
George McDowell Does the Job, Frank Moorhouse , single work short story satire (p. 13-22)
Business No Picnic, Frank Moorhouse , single work short story (p. 33-44)
Rules and Practices for the Overcoming of Shyness, Frank Moorhouse , single work short story (p. 63-74)
George McDowell Delivers a Message to General Juan Garcia of the Cuban Army, Frank Moorhouse , single work short story satire (p. 77-87)
The Annual Conference of 1930 and South Coast Dada, Frank Moorhouse , single work short story (p. 103-113)
Tell Churchill That T. George McDowell is on His Feet, Frank Moorhouse , single work short story satire (p. 117-127)
The St Louis Rotary Convention 1923, Recalled, Frank Moorhouse , single work short story (p. 131-150)
George McDowell Changes Names, Frank Moorhouse , single work short story
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Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Alternative title: Den elektriska erfarenheten
Language: Swedish
    • Lund,
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      Sweden,
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      Scandinavia, Western Europe, Europe,      :       Bakhall ,       1988 .
      Extent: 201p.
      Description: illus.
      ISBN: 9177420608
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Works about this Work

Discontinuous Connections : Matthew Lamb on Fifty Years of The Electrical Experience Matthew Lamb , 2024 single work essay
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , November 2024;

'On its fiftieth anniversary, Matthew Lamb argues for the significance of Frank Moorhouse’s The Electrical Experience, a work of fiction that showcased its author’s experimental technique as well as his intellectual engagement with media theory.'  (Introduction)
Reading The Electrical Experience in Cold Light : Labour Politics and Narrative Form in Frank Moorhouse, Then and Now. Sascha Morell , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , 10 August vol. 31 no. 4 2016; 'This essay seeks to boost Frank Moorhouse’s credentials as a commentator on class consciousness and labour politics, focusing on the oblique representation of labor tension in The Electrical Experience (1974) and addressing thematic and intertextual connections with Cold Light (2011), the third in the so-called 'Edith Trilogy'. Close reading reveals the lurking presence of labour tension in The Electrical Experience, but rather than it being manifested through a direct collision of social classes, it emerges primarily from the inner tensions and contradictions of its protagonist, the soft drink manufacturer George McDowell. Primarily set in the 1920s-30s, when workers’ rights had more prominence on the political Left than in Moorhouse’s immediate cultural scene in the early 1970s, the stories repeatedly show McDowell in revolt against himself, even as he remains oblivious to his workers. The indirect political insight Moorhouse offers on a more local – even parochial – scale in this fragmented work of historical fiction is in some respects deeper and more nuanced than that in the full-scale historical novel Cold Light, which engages directly with communist agitation in 1950s Australia.' (Publication abstract)
y separately published work icon Frank Moorhouse : The Writer as an Artist Pradeep Trikha , Delhi : Shipra Publications , 2000 Z1048778 2000 single work criticism
'Keeping Control of the Young': Frank Moorhouse and the Last Child Peter Pierce , 1999 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Country of Lost Children : An Australian Anxiety 1999; (p. 121-128)
Frank Moorhouse's Pluralism Revisited : Irving Bow and the Aesthetics of Liberation Sarah Beaven , 1996 single work criticism
— Appears in: Mattoid , no. 50 1996; (p. 211-229)
The Electrical Experience 1976 single work review
— Appears in: Semper Floreat , February vol. 46 no. 1 1976; (p. 48-49)
— Review of The Electrical Experience : A Discontinuous Narrative Frank Moorhouse , 1974 selected work short story
New Modes in Fiction David Gilbey , 1976 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , December vol. 36 no. 4 1976; (p. 442-459)
— Review of Johnno : A Novel David Malouf , 1975 single work novel ; The Short Story Embassy : A Novel Michael Wilding , 1975 single work novel ; Living Together Michael Wilding , 1974 single work novel ; The Electrical Experience : A Discontinuous Narrative Frank Moorhouse , 1974 selected work short story ; A Kindness Cup Thea Astley , 1974 single work novel ; Wrappings Vicki Viidikas , 1974 selected work short story
Untitled John Tittensor , 1974 single work review
— Appears in: Nation Review , 6-12 December 1974; (p. 231)
— Review of A Kindness Cup Thea Astley , 1974 single work novel ; The Electrical Experience : A Discontinuous Narrative Frank Moorhouse , 1974 selected work short story
Untitled Carl Harrison-Ford , 1974 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 23 November 1974; (p. 23)
— Review of The Electrical Experience : A Discontinuous Narrative Frank Moorhouse , 1974 selected work short story
Untitled Martin Johnston , 1974 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 30 November 1974; (p. 15)
— Review of The Electrical Experience : A Discontinuous Narrative Frank Moorhouse , 1974 selected work short story
y separately published work icon Frank Moorhouse : The Writer as an Artist Pradeep Trikha , Delhi : Shipra Publications , 2000 Z1048778 2000 single work criticism
Frank Moorhouse Candida Baker (interviewer), 1989 single work biography interview
— Appears in: Yacker 3 : Australian Writers Talk About Their Work 1989; (p. 212-235)
Forms of Historical Narrative Gay Raines , 1990 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Studies , December no. 4 1990; (p. 105-112)
The Short Story Cycles of Frank Moorhouse Gay Raines , 1990 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October vol. 14 no. 4 1990; (p. 425-435)
Liberating Acts - Frank Moorhouse, His Life, His Narratives Graeme Kinross-Smith , 1986 single work
— Appears in: Southerly , December vol. 46 no. 4 1986; (p. 391-423)
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