User talk:Thomasgwilson

Hi,

Thanks for your contribution. I've tried to integrate your new Sartor stuff more fully into the earlier material. I did it rather hastily last night as I hadn't time to integrate it properly. Your earlier version contained material on C's early essays that repeated content already present. Your summary was certainly a great improvement on the earlier mish-mash of assertions. However, I'm not happy calling Sartor "fictional" at the beginning of the description. Obviously it is, but its structure is designed to confuse the reader about what is and is not fact, and, of course, the text includes a narrative about the attempt to construct the "truth" about a person's life from fragments of evidence, a device that C also later uses in the Cromwell biography. This ambiguity was especially evident when it was first published in Fraser's. The later book-form publications contain the "testimonies" of reviewers which make its status as fiction more explicit. Paul B 11:56, 31 January 2007 (UTC)