Ian Watt's "Point of View" Bibliography

Here's a transcription of an handout I came across last week in the Ian Watt Papers; it's an interesting snapshot of what one important novel critic was reading in the mid-twentieth-century.

Point of View and Its Application to Eighteen Century Fiction: A Selective Bibliography, by Ian Watt*

1.History

Richard Stang, The Theory of the Novel in England

Norman Friedman, “Point of View in Fiction – The Development of a Critical Concept” PMLA LXX Dec 1855, 1160-84

II. Idea

Henry James, The Art of the Novel, Blackmur ed

Percy Lubbock, The Craft of Fiction

E. M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel

Wayne Booth, The Rhetoric of Fiction

Peter Swiggart, “Mr. Booth’s Quarrel with Fiction,” Sewanee Review,
LXXI (Jan-March 1963), pp 142-59

III. Application

H.K. Russell, “Tristram Shandy and the Technique of the Novel,” Studies
in Philology, XLII (July 1945), pp 581-591.

Mark Schorer, “Technique as Discovery,” Hudson review, I (1948), 67-87.

Dorothy Van Ghent, The English Novel

Walter Allen, The English Novel: A Short Critical History

Ian Watt, The Rise of the Novel

*SC 401 (Ian Watt Papers), ACCN 1990-131 box 49, Folder 2 – English 340 Notes. Stanford University Special Collections and University Archives.