{"product_id":"trolling-before-the-internet-by-dr-david-rudrum-9781501391538","title":"Trolling Before the Internet","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTrolling Before the Internet\u003c\/em\u003e 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\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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. However, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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 \u003cem\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/em\u003e, David Rudrum demonstrates that trolls’ rhetorical shenanigans are neither new nor unvanquishable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47384193335532,"sku":"9781501391538","price":43.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/15195003482722.jpg?v=1773401697","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/trolling-before-the-internet-by-dr-david-rudrum-9781501391538","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}