{"product_id":"trolling-before-the-internet-an-offline-history-of-insult-provocation-and-public-humiliation-in-the-literary-classics-9781501391538","title":"Trolling Before the Internet: An Offline History of Insult, Provocation, and Public Humiliation in the Literary Classics","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): David Rudrum\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Bloomsbury\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e • Subject: English Literature\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Comparative Literature\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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.","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45030367985815,"sku":"9781501391538","price":1660.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781501391538.webp?v=1769205573","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/trolling-before-the-internet-an-offline-history-of-insult-provocation-and-public-humiliation-in-the-literary-classics-9781501391538","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}