{"product_id":"trolling-before-the-internet","title":"Trolling Before The Internet","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\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","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57198231912830,"sku":"NW9781501391538","price":16.53,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781501391538.jpg?v=1778532338","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/trolling-before-the-internet","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}