Trolling Before the Internet Discworld to how we keep the

to how we keep the lights on

pronunciation

” — Rami Ismail

and deeply reflective book about life and love as a former Mormon

Trolling Before the Internet Discworld to how we keep theTrolling 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. Trolling 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