Hmm. Can any long-arc extended universe type stuff be traced to the 1920s? Especially in genre fiction? Considering a hypothesis that it was a slump decade for EUs.
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Exactly...and biggest EU of all...Sherlock Holmes, almost impossible to overstate influence. Plus Oz/Baum. Holmes a major influence/template on Bertie Wooster and Jeeves, only inverted, standard pulp tactic. Current genre must EU, look to YA fiction to see future.
Holmes appeared in 1887 and the bulk of the canon appeared before 1917. Only the Case Book was published into the 20s.
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Yes, and you had the plays, tableaus, a movie or two, and a host of now-forgotten imitators--big platforms run a long time (cf. Tolkien). See also https://www.pulpmags.org/contexts/essays/pulps-and-big-slicks.html …. Some question how popular SF was in the 1920s compared to now-forgotten genres (adventure, love) + detective
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