ENG 204 Lecture Notes - Sweeney Todd, Photolithography, Penny Dreadful
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Linotype introduced in 1884 it would cast as you typed a line of text. More flexible than linotype, and particularly suitable for book printing lithography invented by alois senefelder in germany in 1798 you treat a plate or stone so that it attracts oils and rejects water. Marketing to the widest possible audience you can reach people were beginning to be paid by word to write writers, the dominate ones, aren"t producing great literature, they;re producing newspapers, pamphlets something quick and easy. Result of technological advances increased the number of books produced in first half of the century in england per-1750 = 100 new titles per year. 1800 approximately 50 of population was literate in 1900 almost 100 penny dreadful or shlling shockers possibly by thomas preskett prest: author of many penny dreadfulls best remembered for, sweeny todd, the demon barber of fleet street some colour.
