{"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\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 \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-15255826\"\u003eDavid Rudrum\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/14\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.04lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 6.15w x 0.99d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501391538\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501391534\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-LIT\"\u003eLiterary Criticism\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-LIT020000\"\u003eComparative Literature\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-SOC\"\u003eSocial Science\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-SOC052000\"\u003eMedia Studies\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-LAN\"\u003eLanguage Arts \u0026amp; Disciplines\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-LAN015000\"\u003eRhetoric\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\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\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48457702801645,"sku":"9781501391538","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/files\/img_21e14d8c-b7d6-4ddb-b25c-2cb83939436e.jpg?v=1753586993","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/trolling-before-the-internet-an-offline-history-of-insult-provocation-and-public-humiliation-in-the-literary-classics-9781501391538","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}