Trolling before the internet : an offline history of insult, provocation, and public humiliation in the literary classics /

An accessible and engaging history of trolling before the internet, tracing the ancestry of its textual and rhetorical strategies from ancient Greece to the 20th century. Taking in the contrarianism of Lord Byron, the wit of Oscar Wilde, insult trading in Shakespeare, Jonathan Swift's disaster...

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Main Author: Rudrum, David, 1974- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Bloomsbury Academic, [2025].
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Evans: Library Stacks

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Call Number: PN56.I648 R83 2025
 
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