CRITICISM OF JOHN FOWLES: A SELECTED CHECKLIST

Author(s): Ronald C. Dixon

Source: Modern Fiction Studies , Spring 1985, Vol. 31, No. 1, SPECIAL ISSUE: JOHN
FOWLES (Spring 1985), pp. 205-210
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CRITICISM OF JOHN FOWLES: A SELECTED
CHECKLIST

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Ronald C. Dixon

NOTE: This checklist follows the usual MFS plan. Part I consists of general
studies of Fowles's life and work. Part II is a section of interviews with him.
Part III lists discussions of his individual works of fiction in chronological order
(the exception is Mantissa [Boston: Little, 1982]: no scholarly article concerning
only this novel was found at the time of the checklist's completion). Foreign
criticism, unpublished dissertations, short book reviews, and routine discussions
in encyclopedias, handbooks, and histories of literature have been omitted. For
a comprehensive bibliography of works by and about John Fowles, see Barry
N. and Toni A. Olshen, John Fowles: A Reference Guide (Boston: Hall, 1980).
See also Prescott Evarts, Jr., "John Fowles: A Checklist," Critique: Studies in
Modem Fiction 13.3 (1972): 105-107; Karen Myers, "John Fowles: An Annotated
Bibliography," Bulletin of Bibliography 33 (1976): 162-169; and Ray A. Roberts,
"John Fowles: A Bibliographical Checklist," American Book Collector 1.5 (1980):
26-37.

I. GENERAL

Allen, Walter. "The Achievement of John Fowles." Encounter 35.2

67.

Baker, James R. "Fowles and the Struggle of the English Aristoi." Jo

Modem Literature 8 (1980-1981): 163-180.

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Bellamy, Michael O. "John Fowles's Versions of Pastoral: Private Valleys and
the Parity of Existence." Critique: Studies in Modern Fiction 21.2 (1979): 72
84.

Bergonzi, Bernard. The Situation of the Novel. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P,

1970. 75-76.

Binns, Ronald. "John Fowles: Radical Romancer." Critical Quarterly 15 (1973):

317-334.

Churchill, Thomas. "Waterhouse, Storey, and Fowles: Which Way Out of the
Room?" Critique: Studies in Modem Fiction 10.3 (1968): 72-87.
Conradi, Peter J. JOHN FOWLES. Contemporary Authors Series. New York:
Methuen, 1982.
Docherty, Thomas. "A Constant Reality: The Presentation of Character in the
Fiction of John Fowles." Novel: A Forum on Fiction 14 (1981): 118-134.
Eddins, Dwight. "John Fowles: Existence as Authorship." Contemporary Literature
17 (1976): 204-222.
Edwards, Lee R. "Changing Our Imaginations." The Massachusetts Review 11
(1970): 604-608.
Fawkner, Harold William. THE TIMESCAPES OF JOHN FOWLES. Ruth
erford: Fairleigh-Dickinson UP, 1984.
Gardner, John. "Moral Fiction." Saturday Review 1 Apr. 1978: 29-30, 32-33.
Huffaker, Robert. JOHN FOWLES. Twayne's English Authors Series 292.
Boston: Twayne, 1980.
Kaplan, Fred. "Victorian Modernists: Fowles and Nabokov." Journal of Narrative
Technique 3 (1973): 108-120.
Kennedy, Alan. "John Fowles's Sense of an Ending." The Protean Self. Dramatic
Action in Contemporary Fiction. New York: Columbia UP, 1974. 251-260.
Kubal, David L. The Consoling Intelligence: Responses to Literary Modernism. Baton
Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1982.
Laughlin, Rosemary M. "Faces of Power in the Novels ofjohn Fowles." Critique:
Studies in Modem Fiction 13.3 (1972): 71-88.
Lever, Karen M. "The Education ofjohn Fowles." Critique: Studies in Modern
Fiction 21.2 (1979): 85-99.
McSweeney, Kerry. Four Contemporary Novelists: Angus Wilson, Brian Moore, John
Fowles, V. S. Naipaul. Montreal: McGill-Queen's UP, 1983.
Mellors, John. "Collectors and Creators: The Novels ofjohn Fowles." London
Magazine ns 14.6 (1975): 65-72.
Olshen, Barry N. JOHN FOWLES. Ungar Modern Literature Series. New
York: Ungar, 1980.
Olshen, Barry N., and Janet E. Lewis. "Fowles and the Medieval Romance
Tradition." Modem Fiction Studies 31 (1985): 15-30.
Palmer, William J. THE FICTION OFJOHN FOWLES: TRADITION, ART,
AND THE LONELINESS OF SELFHOOD. Columbia: U of Missouri P,
1974.

"John Fowles and the Crickets." Modem Fiction Studies 31 (1985): 3-13.
Rackham, Jeff. "John Fowles: The Existential Labyrinth." Critique: Studies in
Modern Fiction 13.3 (1972): 89-103.
Runyon, Randolph. Fowles!Irving!Barthes: Canonical Variations on an Apocryphal Theme.
Columbus: Ohio State UP for Miami University, 1981.

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Scholes, Robert. "The Orgastic Fiction of John Fowles." The Hollins Critic 6.5
(1969): 1-12.
Fabulation and Metafiction. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1979.
Walker, David H. "Subversion of Narrative in the Work of André Gide and
John Fowles." Comparative Criticism: A Yearbook. Ed. Elinor Shaffer. Cam
bridge: Cambridge UP, 1980. 187-212.
Wolfe, Peter. JOHN FOWLES, MAGUS AND MORALIST. 2nd ed. Lew
isburg: Bucknell UP, 1979.

II. INTERVIEWS

Baker, John F. "John Fowles." Publishers Weekly 25 Nov. 1974: 6-

Barnum, Carol M. "An Interview with John Fowles." Modem Fiction
(1985): 187-203.
Campbell, lames. "An Interview with John Fowles." Contemporary L
(1976): 455-469.
Gilder, Joshua. "John Fowles: A Novelist's Dilemma." Saturday Rev
1981: 36-40.

Gussow, Mel. "Talk with John Fowles." The New York Times Book Review 13
Nov. 1977: 3, 84-85.
Hall, Donald. "John Fowles's Gardens." Esquire Oct. 1982: 90-102.
Halpern, Daniel, "A Sort of Exile in Lyme Regis." London Magazine ns 10.12
(1971): 34-46.
Newquist, Roy. Counterpoint. New York: Rand, 1964: 218-225.
Robinson, Robert. "Giving the Reader a Choice—A Conversation with John
Fowles." The Listener 31 Oct. 1974: 584.

Sage, Lorna. "John Fowles—A Profile." The New Review 1.7 (1974): 31-37.
Singh, Raman K. "An Encounter with John Fowles ."Journal of Modem Literature
8 (1980-1981): 181-202.
Stolley, Richard B. "The French Lieutenant's Woman's Man." Life 29 May
1970: 55-60.

III. DISCUSSIONS OF INDIVIDUAL WORKS

THE COLLECTOR (Boston: Little, 1963)

Bagchee, Syhamal. "The Collector. The Paradoxical Imagination of John Fowles."

Journal of Modem Literature 8 (1980-1981): 219-234.
Beatty, Patricia V. "John Fowles' Clegg: Captive Landlord of Eden." Ariel. A
Review of International English Literature 13.3 (1982): 73-81.
Franklyn, A. Fredric. "The Hand in the Fist (A Study of William Wyler's The
Collector)." Trace Spring (1966): 22-27, 101-107.

THE MAGUS (Boston: Little, 1965; A Revised Version, Boston: Little,

1978)

Begnal, Michael H. "A View of John Fowles' The Magus." Modem British
Literature 3 (1978): 67-72.

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Berets, Ralph. "The Magus: A Study in the Creation of a Personal Myth."
Twentieth Century Literature 19 (1973): 89-98.
Binns, Ronald. "A New Version of The Magus." Critical Quarterly 19.4 (1977):
79-84.

Boccia, Michael. " 'Visions and Revisions': John Fowles's New Version of The
Magus." Journal of Modem Literature 8 (1980-1981): 235-246.
Bradbury, Malcolm. "John Fowles's The Magus." Sense and Sensibility in Twentieth
Century Writing. Ed. Brom Weber. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1970.
26-38.

Epstein, Joseph. "An English Nabokov." Rev. of The Magus. New Republic 19
Feb. 1966: 26-27, 29.
Finkle, David. "John Fowles Takes a Second Chance." Rev. of The Magus: A
Revised Version. Village Voice 20 Feb. 1978: 87-88.
Fleishman, Avrom. "The Magus of the Wizard of the West." Journal of Modern
Literature 5 (1976): 297-314.
Holmes, Frederick M. "Art, Truth, and John Fowles: The Magus." Modern
Fiction Studies 31 (1985): 45-56.
Lindroth, James R. "The Architecture of Revision: Fowles and the Agora."
Modern Fiction Studies 31 (1985): 57-69.
McDaniel, Ellen. "The Magus: Fowles's Tarot Quest." Journal of Modern Literature
8 (1980-1981): 247-260.
Magalaner, Marvin. "The Fool's Journey: John Fowles's The Magus." Old Lines,
New Forces: Essays on the Contemporary British Novel, 1960-1970. Ed. Robert K.
Morris. Cranbury: Fairleigh-Dickinson UP, 1976. 81-92.
Nadeau, Robert. "Fowles and Physics: A Study of The Magus: A Revised Version."
Journal of Modem Literature 8 (1980-1981), 261-274.
Novak, Frank, Jr. "The Dialectics of Debasement in The Magus." Modem Fiction
Studies 31 (1985): 71-82.
Olshen, Barry N. "John Fowles's The Magus: An Allegory of Self-Realization."
Journal of Popular Culture 9 (1976): 916-925.
Palmer, William J. "Fowles's The Magus: The Vortex as Myth, Metaphor, and
Masque." The Power of Myth in Literature and Film. Ed. Victor Carrabino.
Tallahassee: UP of Florida, 1980. 66-76.
Presley, Delma E. "The Quest of the Bourgeois Hero: An Approach to Fowles's
The Magus." Journal of Popular Culture 6 (1972): 394-398.
Rubenstein, Roberta. "Myth, Mystery and Irony: John Fowles's The Magus."
Contemporary Literature 16 (1975): 328-339.

THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN (Boston: Little, 1969.)

Brantlinger, Patrick, Ian Adam, and Sheldon Rothblatt. "The French Lieutenant's
Woman: A Discussion." Victorian Studies 15 (1972): 339-356.
Brown, Ruth Christiani. "The French Lieutenant's Woman and Pierre: Echo and
Answer." Modem Fiction Studies 31 (1985): 115-132.
Conradi, Peter J. "The French Lieutenant's Woman: novel, screenplay, film."
Critical Quarterly 24.1 (1982): 41-57.

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Costa, Richard Hauer. "Trickery's Mixed Bag: The Perils of Fowles's The
French Lieutenant's Woman." Bulletin of the Rocky Mountain MLA 29 (1975): 1
9.

Creighton, Joanne V. "The Reader and Modern and Post-Modern Fiction."

College Literature 9 (1982): 216-230.
De Vitis, A. A., and William J. Palmer. "A Pair of Blue Eyes Flash at The French
Lieutenant's Woman." Contemporary Literature 15 (1974): 90-101.
Hagopian, John V. "Bad Faith in The French Lieutenant's Woman." Contemporary
Literature 23 (1982): 191-201.
Higdon, David Leon. "Endgames in John Fowles's The French Lieutenant's Woman."
English Studies 65 (1984): 350-361.
Holmes, Frederick M. "The Novel, Illusion, and Reality: The Paradox of
Omniscience in The French Lieutenant's Woman." Journal of Narrative Technique
11 (1981): 184-198.
Johnson, A. J. B. "Realism in The French Lieutenant's Woman." Journal of Modem
Literature 8 (1980-1981): 287-302.
Mansfield, Elizabeth. "A Sequence of Endings: The Manuscripts of The French
Lieutenant's Woman." Journal of Modem Literature 8 (1980-1981): 275-286.
McDaniel, Ellen. "Games and Godgames in The Magus and The French Lieutenant's
Woman." Modem Fiction Studies 31 (1985): 31-42.
Miller, Nan. "Christina Rossetti and Sarah Woodruff: Two Remedies for a
Divided Self." The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies 3 (1982): 68-77.
Rankin, Elizabeth. "Cryptic Coloration in The French Lieutenant's Woman." Journal
of Narrative Technique 3 (1973): 193-207.
Scruggs, Charles. "The Two Endings of The French Lieutenant's Woman." Modem
Fiction Studies 31 (1985): 95-113.
Smith, Frederik N. "Revision and the Style of Revision in The French Lieutenant's
Woman." Modem Fiction Studies 31 (1985): 85-94.

THE EBONY TOWER (Boston: Little, 1974.)

Alderman, Timothy. "The Enigma of The Ebony Tower: A Genre Study." Modem
Fiction Studies 31 (1985): 135-147.
Barnum, Carol M. "The Quest Motif in John Fowles's The Ebony Tower-. Theme
and Variations." Texas Studies in Literature and Language 23 (1981): 138-157.
Davidson, Arnold E. "Eliduc and 'The Ebony Tower': John Fowles's Variation
on a Medieval Lay." The International Fiction Review 11 (1984, 31-36.
McSweeney, Kerry. "John Fowles's Variations in The Ebony Tower." Journal of
Modem Literature 8 (1980-1981): 303-324.
Morse, Ruth. "John Fowles, Marie de France, and the Man with Two Wives."
Philological Quarterly 63 (1984): 17-30.
Sollisch, James W. "The Passion of Existence: John Fowles's The Ebony Tower."
Critique: Studies in Modem Fiction 25.1 (1983): 1-23.
Wilson, Raymond J., III. "John Fowles's The Ebony Tower: Unity and Celtic
Myth." Twentieth Century Literature 28 (1982): 302-318.

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DANIEL MARTIN (Boston: Little, 1977.)

Alter, Robert. "Daniel Martin and the Mimetic Task." Genre 14 (1981): 65-78.
Andrews, Maureen Gillespie. "Nature in John Fowles's Daniel Martin and The
Tree." Modem Fiction Studies 31 (1985): 149-155.
Arlett, Robert. "DanielMartin and the Contemporary Epic Novel." Modem Fiction
Studies 31 (1985): 173-185.
Barnum, Carol M. "John Fowles's Daniel Martin: A Vision of Whole Sight."
Literary Review 25 (1981), 64-79.
Boomsma, Patricia J. " 'Whole Sight': Fowles, Lukâcs, and Daniel Martin
Journal of Modem Literature 8 (1980-1981): 325-336.
Ferris, Ina. "Realist Intention and Mythic Impulse in Daniel MartinJournal
of Narrative Technique 12 (1982): 146-153.
Gardner, John. "In Defense of the Real." Rev. of Daniel Martin. Saturday Review
1 Oct. 1977: 22-24.
Klemtner, Susan Strehle. "The Counterpoles of John Fowles's Daniel Martin."
Critique: Studies in Modem Fiction 21.2 (1979): 59-71.
McSweeney, Kerry. "Withering into the Truth: John Fowles and Daniel Martin."
Critical Quarterly 20.4 (1978): 31-38.
Park, Sue. "John Fowles, Daniel Martin, and Simon Wolfe." Modem Fiction
Studies 31 (1985): 165-171.
"Time and Ruins in John Fowles's Daniel Martin." Modem Fiction Studies
31 (1985): 157-163.
Wymard, Eleanor B. " 'A New Version of the Midas Touch': Daniel Martin
and The World According to Garp." Modem Fiction Studies 27 (1981): 284-286.

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