{"product_id":"trolling-before-the-internet-david-rudrum-9781501391538","title":"Trolling Before the Internet: An Offline History of Insult, Provocation, and Public Humiliation in the Literary Classics","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrolling began long before the internet. This accessible history traces the ancestry of its textual and rhetorical strategies, by looking at literature from ancient Greece to the 1980s. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTrolling is the most controversial genre of writing to have risen to prominence in the 21st century, with far-reaching consequences for its writers and readers alike. But it is too often regarded as a technological problem, confined to the internet. This book takes a very different approach: it regards trolling as a cultural problem with a long and venerable literary history. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTaking in the contrarianism of Lord Byron, the wit of Oscar Wilde, insult trading in Shakespeare, Jonathan Swift's disaster trolling, Martin Luther's dissemination of heresy through a public discussion forum, the grotesquely misogynistic abuse hurled in Archilochus's poetry, the taunting provocations of avant-garde manifestos, and not forgetting public humiliations in\u003ci\u003e Beowulf, \u003c\/i\u003e David Rudrum demonstrates that trolls' rhetorical shenanigans are neither new nor unvanquishable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Rudrum\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501391534\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501391538\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/14\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.00d","brand":"David Rudrum","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46250574414079,"sku":"9781501391538","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_73bcffa3-678b-4d61-b78d-73eb8ef9c32f.jpg?v=1729600754","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/trolling-before-the-internet-david-rudrum-9781501391538","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}