[Grammar] without you/without your

[dbals]

I have always thought "without you" is the correct form until I read the following sentence fragment in Scott Fitzgerald's essay. Now I'm confused.

"...things happen without your knowing it." <- original form in Scott's essay
"...things happen without you knowing it." <- proposed corrected sentence

Which is correct? "without your" or "without you" or both?
Was Scott drunk while writing this? ;-)

 

[probus]

When F. Scott wrote it, "without your" was the only correct form.

Nowadays I feel that "without you" sounds more fresh and modern in AmE, but both are still correct.

 

[JTRiff]

not a teacher

I prefer your knowing to you knowing, from a writer's standpoint, it just feels better.
Without the voice, narrator or otherwise, of the preceding text present, it's hard to make a call on this sentence.