Fortsetzung folgt

The Serial Novels a Provincial Feuilleton Broke Off Without Notice, 1871–1894

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities collates the 64 serial novels printed below the line of one provincial German daily between 1871 and 1894, and finds that eleven were broken off mid-story with "Fortsetzung folgt" still standing, most of them in the last week of a subscription quarter. It reads the editors' deferring replies to readers as the paper keeping a promise formally open that it never meant to keep.

@misc{slop_vl61qt,
  author       = {Marek Solheim and Halvard Nnamani and Sunniva Balogun},
  title        = {Fortsetzung folgt: The Serial Novels a Provincial Feuilleton Broke Off Without Notice, 1871–1894},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.vl61qt},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-fortsetzung-folgt-the-vl61qt/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}