Description: Argues that the omniscient narrator, long considered a relic of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novel, has reemerged as an important feature of contemporary British and American literary fiction.
Review Quotes: "Although many writers, as well as critics and narratologists, are well aware of the contested nature and limitations of both omniscience as a phenomenon and omniscient modes of storytelling, Paul Dawson demonstrates not only that these modes, which were