Talk:The Price of Salt/Archive 1

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Title

It would be nice if someone could document the source and/or significance of the title. Bmclaughlin9 (talk) 20:14, 1 June 2015 (UTC)

Edit on "lesbian pulp fiction"

Editor Lapadite 77 needs to stop the lording over articles associated with The Price of Salt/Carol. No one "owns" a Wikipedia article and reversing a good faith edit because he did not read citations elsewhere in the article that supported the edit is no less than bullying the contributions of editors. Wikipedia encourages participation by editors that can contribute legitimate information supported by citations. Reversing and changing another editor's contribution for the sake of flexing an editing muscle discourages potential editors from participating in Wikipedia. Pyxis Solitary (talk) 20:42, 3 January 2016 (UTC)

Pyxis Solitary, as I said on Talk:Carol (film), you need to stop knee-jerk bad faith accusations every time an edit of yours is modified by editors. You also need to stop titling headings with editors' names on article talk pages when you disagree with a content edit; article talk pages are not noticeboard reports. At Talk:Carol, I also brought up your very inappropriate vandalism revert here (hadn't seen this post before). Lapadite (talk) 03:35, 4 January 2016 (UTC)

The Price of Salt (lesbian novel) vs. Maurice (gay novel)

Re statement in Lead section (introduction): "The novel's relatively happy ending was unprecedented in lesbian literature and gay fiction."

• The Price of Salt was published in 1952.
• Maurice (although written bet. 1913-1914) was published in 1971. Pyxis Solitary (talk) 08:31, 18 March 2016 (UTC)

I initially thought this was correct, and it certainly is with respect to Maurice. But the claim asserted here in the summary with respect to gay literature does not appear in the body of the entry and remains undocumented. The claim of "first happy ending" is made for Imre: A Memorandum, but I don't think a privately published work should qualify. There may still be an instance that antedates The Price of Salt, maybe A Year in Arcadia: Kyllenion, but that's set in Ancient Greece, while a happy ending in contemporary society is quite different. Perhaps no exception in English. But see Better Angel, published in 1933 and again under a different title in 1951, which seems to have a happy ending, though it's not clear to me if that's a happy relationship or just happy survival. What do the scholars say? Bmclaughlin9 (talk) 15:06, 18 March 2016 (UTC)

Easy solution: remove that which says "gay fiction" until you or someone else can confirm it -- and that's what I did on 00:44, 19 March 2016‎ with the following editing summary:

• The "and gay fiction" removed until it is confirmed by an editor who can substantiate the statement with a notation.

Wikipedia editing tends to dissolve too often into a personal editing contest. Pyxis Solitary (talk) 00:42, 19 March 2016 (UTC)