{"product_id":"9781501391538","title":"Trolling Before the Internet An Offline History of Insult, Provocation, and Public Humiliation in the Literary Classics","description":"\u003ch1\u003eTrolling Before the Internet\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eAn Offline History of Insult, Provocation, and Public Humiliation in the Literary Classics\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eDavid Rudrum\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary Criticism \/ Comparative Literature\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eDavid Rudrum\u003c\/b\u003e is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Huddersfield, UK. He is the author or editor of four previous publications, including \u003ci\u003eSupplanting the Postmodern \u003c\/i\u003e(co-edited with Nicholas Stavris, Bloomsbury, 2015) and \u003ci\u003eStanley Cavell and the Claim of Literature \u003c\/i\u003e(2013).\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e14 November 2024\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781501391538\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePaperback softback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e320\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e16.32\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62308172005516,"sku":"9781501391538","price":24.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_41570ebc-6c99-4825-a72c-2124cafd5ad0.jpg?v=1791347644","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9781501391538","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}