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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
March 2022
Print publication year:
2022
Online ISBN:
9781108903165
Series:
Elements in Publishing and Book Culture

Book description

This Element examines a watershed moment in the recent history of digital publishing through a case study of the pre-web, serious hypertext periodical, the Eastgate Quarterly Review of Hypertext (1994-1995). Early hypertext writing relied on standalone, mainframe computers and specialized authoring software. With the Web launching as a mass distribution platform, EQRH faced a fast-evolving technological landscape, paired with an emergent gift and open access economy. Its non-linear writing experiments afford key insights into historical, medium-specific authoring practices. Access constraints have left EQRH under-researched and threatened by obsolescence. To address this challenge, this study offers platform-specific analyses of all the EQRH's cross-media materials, including works that have hitherto escaped scholarly attention. It deploys a form of conceptually oral ethno-historiography: the lore of electronic literature. The Element deepens our understanding of the North American publishing industry's history and contributes to the overdue preservation of early digital writing.

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  • Mac, Kathy (1994) “Unnatural Habitats,” 1:3.

  • Moulthrop, Stuart (1994) “The Crash of Nothing into Something,” 1:2, pp. 5–13.

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  • Rosenberg, Jim (1995) “The Barrier Frames” and “Diffractions Through,” 2:3.

  • Smyth, Richard (1995) “Genetis: A Rhizography,” 2:4.

  • Swigart, Rob (1994) “Directions,” 1:4.

  • Van Mantgem, Michael (1995) “Completing the Circle,” 2:2.

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