In this sense electronic literature is a "hopeful monster" (as geneticists call adaptive mutations) composed of parts taken from diverse traditions that may not always fit neatly together. Hybrid by nature, it comprises a trading zone (as Peter Galison calls it in a different context) in which different vocabularies, expertises and expectations come together to see what might come from their intercourse. (Note 2) Electronic literature tests the boundaries of the literary and challenges us to re-think our assumptions of what literature can do and be. 2 Genres of Electronic Literature

Is literary quality possible in digital media, or is electronic literature demonstrably inferior to the print canon?

This fanciful scenario is meant to suggest that the place of writing is again in turmoil, roiled now not by the invention of print books but the emergence of electronic literature.

The Scriptorium was in turmoil.

at the same time, we give other creators the chance to use that same copyrighted material without permission or payment, in some circumstances. Without the second half of the bargain, we could all lose important new cultural work just because one person is arbitrary or greedy.”

Fortunately, we can reuse copyright content without permission for purposes of comment, critique, homage and media literacy education.

Remix and feminism go hand in hand. For young women and girls, it’s a way to take back our identities from corporate commodification and the use of appropriation in the remix process allows for images of woman and femininity to be rearticulated and redefined by the author.

This means we can talk back, make fun of and critique the media using their own language.

Had Goodman Brown fallen asleep in the forest, and only dreamed a wild dream of a witch-meeting?

This night it shall be granted you to know their secret deeds

He could have well nigh sworn, that the shape of his own dead father beckoned him to advance, looking downward from a smoke-wreath, while a woman, with dim features of despair, threw out her hand to warn him back.

“Bring forth the converts!” cried a voice, that echoed through the field and rolled into the forest.

With reverence be it spoken, the figure bore no slight similitude, both in garb and manner, to some grave divine of the New-England churches.

“My Faith is gone!” cried he, after one stupefied moment. “There is no good on earth; and sin is but a name. Come, devil! for to thee is this world given.”

Goodman Brown sat himself down on the stump of a tree, and refused to go any farther.

“Well, then, to end the matter at once,” said Goodman Brown, considerably nettled, “there is my wife, Faith. It would break her dear little heart; and I’d rather break my own!”

“Come, Goodman Brown!” cried his fellow-traveller, “this is a dull pace for the beginning of a journey.

In early life he had accidentally killed a beloved friend; and from that day till the hour of his own death, he hid his face from men.

“Never!” cried the veiled clergyman. “On earth, never!”

“Yea,” said he, in faint accents, “my soul hath a patient weariness until that veil be lifted.”

but one whose calm affection had endured thus long in secrecy, in solitude, amid the chill of age, and would not perish, even at the dying hour. Who, but Elizabeth

it was now good Father Hooper’s turn to rest.

“Never! It cannot be!” replied Mr. Hooper. “Then farewell!” said Elizabeth

“Beloved and respected as you are, there may be whispers that you hide your face under the consciousness of secret sin. For the sake of your holy office, do away this scandal!”

But there was one person in the village unappalled by the awe with which the black veil had impressed all beside herself.

Mr. Hooper, wherefore he did this thing.

His frame shuddered, his lips grew white, he spilt the untasted wine upon the carpet, and rushed forth into the darkness. For the Earth, too, had on her Black Veil.

“Truly do I,” replied the lady; “and I would not be alone with him for the world. I wonder he is not afraid to be alone with himself!”

he strove to win his people heavenward by mild, persuasive influences, rather than to drive them thither by the thunders of the Word.

“Our parson has gone mad!” cried Goodman Gray, following him across the threshold.

“I don’t like it,” muttered an old woman, as she hobbled into the meeting-house. “He has changed himself into something awful, only by hiding his face.”

Mr. Hooper had on a black veil.

though still a bachelor

SEXTON

the corpse thrust, with the head downward, up the chimney; the frightful mutilation of the body of the old lady

No woman could have inflicted the blows with any weapon.

besmeared

cobbler

diseased intelligence

analyst is necessarily ingenious, the ingenious man is often remarkably incapable of analysis.

by which he may seduce into error or hurry into miscalculation.

I was answered by a voice from within the tomb!—by a cry, at first muffled and broken, like the sobbing of a child, and then quickly swelling into one long, loud, and continuous scream, utterly anomalous and inhuman—a howl—a wailing shriek, half of horror and half of triumph, such as might have arisen only out of hell, conjointly from the throats of the dammed in their agony and of the demons that exult in the damnation.

I made no doubt that I could readily displace the bricks at this point, insert the corpse, and wall the whole up as before, so that no eye could detect any thing suspicious.

Goaded, by the interference, into a rage more than demoniacal, I withdrew my arm from her grasp and buried the axe in her brain. She fell dead upon the spot, without a groan.

it also had been deprived of one of its eyes.

With these I spent most of my time, and never was so happy as when feeding and caressing them.

When it reached the house it domesticated itself at once, and became immediately a great favorite with my wife.

I felt it had given me no reason of offence;—hung it because I knew that in so doing I was committing a sin—a deadly sin that would so jeopardize my immortal soul as to place it

grasped the poor beast by the throat, and deliberately cut one of its eyes from the socket!

even Pluto began to experience the effects of my ill temper.

With these I spent most of my time, and never was so happy as when feeding and caressing them.

approbation.

“Then prithee, my dear lad,” said his father, “since your rank and fortune are so much beneath what your PRINCESS might expect, be so kind as to turn your eyes on Miss Weatherby; who, having only an estate of three thousand a year, is more upon a level with you, and whose father yesterday solicited the mighty honour of your alliance. I shall leave you to consider on this offer; and pray remember, that your union with Miss Weatherby will put it in your power to be more liberally the friend of Lucy Eldridge.”

Full of this determination, he fought his father, declared his resolution, and was commanded never more to appear in his presence

When the heart has will, the hands can soon find means to execute a good action.

“You never lost a wife and son,” said Eldridge. “No,” replied he, “but I can feel for those that have.” Eldridge pressed his hand as they went toward the door, and they parted in silence.

“What! both gone?” said I. “Both,” she replied, endeavouring to restrain her emotions: “but they are happy, no doubt.”

but this short time was not allowed me; for that evening, as I was sitting down to supper, unsuspicious of danger, an officer entered, and tore me from the embraces of my family.

I forbade him the house.

“the rose of youth and health soon fades when watered by the tear of affliction.”

she was more irresistibly charming to such a heart as Temple’s, than she would have been, if adorned with all the splendor of a courtly belle.

and how I might be likely to obtain an interview.”

awakened in his bosom new and pleasing ideas.

A tall, elegant girl looked at Montraville and blushed: he instantly recollected the features of Charlotte Temple, whom he had once seen and danced with at a ball at Portsmouth.

I shall feel a much higher gratification in reflecting on this trifling performance, than could possibly result from the applause which might attend the most elegant finished piece of literature whose tendency might deprave the heart or mislead the understanding.

I have thrown over the whole a slight veil of fiction, and substituted names and places according to my own fancy.

pusilianimous

Strange how blind self love renders you men; were you not wholly absorbed in a partial admiration of your own abilities, you would long since have acknowledged the force of what I am now going to urge.

for equality only, we wish to contend.

from the commencement of time to the present day, there hath been as many females, as males, who, by the mere force of natural powers, have merited the crown of applause; who, thus unassisted, have seized the wreath of fame.

reptile world

I believe the reverse is generally observed to be true. But from that period what partiality! how is the one exalted, and the other depressed, by the contrary modes of education which are adopted

how many reputations, in the fertile brain of a female, have been utterly despoiled?

the minds of females are so notoriously deficient, or unequal.

The soul unfetter’d, to no sex confin’d, Was for the abodes of cloudless day design’d.

They rob us of the power t’improve,

I would, I must repeat, by all means guard them against a low estimation of self.

give birth to the most favorable impressions at first sight: but, how mortifying should this be all, if, upon a more extensive knowledge you should be discovered to possess no one mental charm

to teach young minds to aspire, ought to be the ground work of education:

May be refin’d, and join th’ angelic train.

who is but a worm, and hath no more power to hurt his fellow worm, without the permission of God, than a real worm.

slavish fear of man,

Thus doth Ethiopia begin to stretch forth her hand, from a sink of slavery to freedom and equality. Although you are deprived of the means of education; yet you are not deprived of

the great general of Syria’s army, was healed of his leprosy

And this is not to be confined to parties or colours; not to towns or states; not to a kingdom, but to the kingdoms of the whole earth, over whom Christ the king is head and grand master. Among these numerous sons and daughters of distress, I shall be

My good Master was exceeding glad to see me, telling me that I was like one arose from the Dead, for he thought I had been Dead a great many Years, having heard nothing of me for almost Thirteen Years.

and ask’d who would go on board the King’s Ships, four of which having been lately built, were bound to Old-Spain, and on my refusing to serve on board, they put me in a close Dungeon

–I was employ’d in this Service about Seven Months, during which Time I lived very well, and then returned to the Castle again, where I had my Liberty to walk about the City, and do Work for my self

e Years in a close Dungeon, but the Captain would not hearken to any Intreaties, for fear of having the Governor’s Displeasure, and so was obliged to go on Shore.  

asked the Indians to let me go on board his Vessel, which they granted,

kill’d Three of our hands,

and had kill’d Captain Howland,

warrant.

Outside of its parish it shall be compensated; and shall be submitted, in this case, to the military discipline, and in all other case, is only subject to the law.

Art. 40. – If the Governor is informed of some plot against the tranquility of the colony, he shall immediately proceed to the arrest of the presumed authors, instigators or accomplices; after having them undergo extra-judiciary questioning, he shall cite them in front of a competent tribunal.

the Constitution attribute exclusively to this general the right to designate the citizen who, in the unfortunate event of the general’s death, shall immediately replace him

he is entrusted the direction thereof for the remainder of his glorious life.

The catholic, apostolic, roman faith shall be the only publicly professed faith.

There cannot exist slaves on this territory, servitude is therein forever abolished. All men are born, live and die free and French.

Men do not change from enemies to friends by the alteration of a name

NDEPENDANT

whether you can hereafter love, honor, and faithfully serve the power that hath carried fire and sword into your land?

renounce the alliance

Europe, and not England, is the parent country of America

her motive was INTEREST not ATTACHMENT

and always will sustain, by being connected with, and dependent on Great Britain

You hang by a slender thread, with the flames of divine wrath flashing about it, and ready every moment to singe it and burn it asunder; and you have no interest in any Mediator, and nothing to lay hold of to save yourself, nothing to keep off the flames of wrath, nothing of your own, nothing that you ever have done, nothing that you can do, to induce God to spare you one moment…  

There is no other[Pg 89] reason to be given why you han’t gone to hell since you have sat here in the house of God, provoking his pure eyes by your sinful wicked manner of attending his solemn worship

but your guilt in the mean time is constantly increasing, and you are every day treasuring up more wrath; the waters are continually rising, and waxing more and more mighty; and there is nothing but the mere pleasure of God that holds the waters back, that are unwilling to be stopped, and press hard to go forward.

There is nothing between you and hell but the air; ’tis only the power and mere pleasure of God that holds you up.

The wrath of God burns against them; their damnation don’t slumber; the pit is prepared; the fire is made ready; the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them; the flames do now rage and glow. The glittering sword is whet, and held over them, and the pit hath opened her mouth under them.

So that every unconverted man properly belongs to hell;

There is no want of power in God to cast wicked men into hell at any moment.

I was a far better Christian

When I have had turns of weeping and crying for my sins I thought I knew at the time, that my repentance was nothing to my sin.

I felt an ardency of soul to be, what I know not otherwise how to express, emptied and annihilated; to lie in the dust, and to be full of Christ alone; to love him with a holy and pure love; to trust in him; to live upon him; to serve and follow him; and to be perfectly sanctified and made pure, with a divine and heavenly purity

the glory of the Son of God, as Mediator between God and man, and his wonderful, great, full, pure and sweet grace and love, and meek and gentle condescension.

It has often appeared to me delightful, to be united to Christ; to have him for my head, and to be a member of his body; also to have Christ for my teacher and prophet.

Creator and Redeemer.

And my mind was greatly engaged to spend my time in reading and meditating on Christ, on the beauty and excellency of his person, and the lovely way of salvation by free grace in him.

But it never came into my thought, that there was any thing spiritual, or of a saving nature in this.

to apply myself to seek salvation

hen it pleased God, to seize me with a pleurisy; in which he brought me nigh to the grave, and shook me over the pit of hell. And yet, it was not long after my recovery, before I fell again into my old ways of sin.

his

soul’s salvation;

Jonathan Edwards

I have indeed set myself to countermine the whole PLOT of the Devil, against New-England,

Children of New-England

Thus did they scoff at us, as if the English would be a quarter of a year getting ready.

So like were these barbarous creatures to him who was a liar from the beginning.

fortnight

ground nuts

I complained it was too heavy, whereupon she gave me a slap in the face,

“No,” said he, “none will hurt you.” Then came one of them and gave me two spoonfuls of meal to comfort me, and another gave me half a pint of peas; which was more worth than many bushels at another time.

But to return, we traveled on till night; and in the morning, we must go over the river to Philip’s crew.

instead of going over the river, I must go four or five miles up the river farther northward.

they would break my face.

I do not desire to live to forget this Scripture, and what comfort it was to me.

not that he first took me, but I was sold to him by another Narragansett Indian,

In the morning, when they understood that my child was dead they sent for me home to my master’s wigwam

but instead of that, sometimes one Indian would come and tell me one hour that “your master will knock your child in the head,” and then a second, and then a third, “your master will quickly knock your child in the head.”

He wounded me with one hand, so he healed me with the other.

A very wearisome and tedious day I had of it; what with my own wound, and my child’s being so exceeding sick, and in a lamentable condition with her wound

But the Lord renewed my strength still, and carried me along, that I might see more of His power; yea, so much that I could never have thought of, had I not experienced it. After this it quickly beg

though I thought we should there have ended our days, as overcome with so many difficulties

(deserted by the English before, for fear of the Indians)

my thoughts ran upon my losses and sad bereaved condition.

Eacus

Shrimpe

Ma-re-Moun

He provides bullets of several sizes, three hundred or there- Zs. ume ‘ about, to be used if the conspirators should pursue him there: and these two persons promised their aides in the quarrel, and confirmed that promise with health in good rofa folis

Captain Shrimp

when mine hofls plantation was of as much ftrength as theirs, but now, (theirs being ftronger,)

Maffachuffets

Plimmoth

A bifket cake given to one, that one breakes it equally into fo many parts

Sanaconquam

and made God so angry that he let in the sea upon them, and drowned the greater part of them

one man and one woman

But that which is worse, even sodomie and bugerie, (things fearfull to name,) have broak forth in this land, oftener then once.

William Bradford

Anno Dom

They approached ye same with great silence, and surrounded it both with English & Indeans, that they might not breake out; and so assualted them with great courage

Some of ye worst of ye company were disperst, and some of ye more modest kepte ye house till he should be heard from. But I have been too long aboute so un-worthy a person, and bad a cause…

armed his consorts

Morton

O the horiblnes of this vilanie!

saltpete

bowes & arrowes but bables in comparison of them.

French & fisher-men made by trading of peeces, powder, & shotte to ye Indeans, he, as ye head of this consortship, begane ye practise of ye same in these parts; and first he taught them how to use them, to charge, & discharg, and what proportion of powder to give ye peece,

meanest servants.

So they begane to thinke how they might raise as much corne as they could, and obtaine a beter crope then they had done

others (so base were they) became servants to ye Indeans,

quanto continued with them, and was their interpreter, and was a spetiall instrument sent of God for their good beyond their expectation. He directed them how to set their corne, wher to take fish, and to procure other comodities, and was also their pilott to bring them to unknowne places for their profitt

With whom, after frendly entertainment, & some gifts given him, they made a peace with him (which hath now continued this 24. years) in these terms.

Squanto

[T]hey that before had been boone companions in drinking & joyllity in ye time of their health & wellfare, begane now to deserte one another in this calamitie, saing they would not hasard ther lives for them

2. or 3. of a day, in ye foresaid time; that of 100. & odd persons, scarce 50.

That when they came a shore they would use their owne libertie; for none had power to com̅and them,

barbarians

ye

Capten Gosnole & his company,

which ye shipe was shroudly shaken, and her upper works made very leakie; and one of the maine beames in ye midd ships was bowed & craked, which put them in some fear that ye shipe could not be able to performe ye vioage.

throwne overbord

to smite this yong man with a greeveous disease, of which he dyed in a desperate maner

I must begine at ye very roote & rise of ye same.

William Bradford

I will come to life and wipe out your whole tribe.”

missions

old Indian whom we found in a maizefield

I had lost much blood from two arrow wounds which I had received in the face and from a remarkable gunshot wound in the chest

that thus he should go back to this people and tell them in my name all that had been said to him, and persuade them to agree to it and to withdraw from where they were

their evil designs

Christian Indians

lamentable tragedy,

Indians

Pueblo Revolt

the inhabitants whereof had much maize, beans and pumpkins, and being near the sea, they had fish, and that those people were their friends.

Florida

maize