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The 13 pages that link to Omniscient narrator, each with the reason it gives.

• Epistolary novelCompared with: An epistolary novel usually withholds this comprehensive access in favor of situated accounts.

• Literary realismRelated: Realist novels use this viewpoint to connect individual lives with wider social conditions.

• First-person narrativeCompared with: Its wide knowledge contrasts with the typical limits of a first-person narrator.

• Narrative voiceBroader topic: This voice can move among minds and explain events beyond a character’s knowledge.

• Point of viewBroader topic: Omniscience allows a narrative to move beyond a single character’s perspective.

• Narrative perspectiveBroader topic: This perspective can disclose events and thoughts unavailable to the characters.

• NarratorBroader topic: This narrator can disclose knowledge unavailable to a single character.

• George EliotRelated: Eliot’s narrators move among minds while guiding judgments about sympathy, error, and responsibility.

• Point of view (literature)Broader topic: Omniscience permits movement across minds and situations within one telling.

• Henry FieldingRelated: Fielding’s narrators interrupt the story to comment on its structure, characters, and moral interpretation.

• Epistolary literatureCompared with: Letters restrict knowledge to what writers know, record, and choose to disclose.

• The Mill on the FlossRelated: Eliot’s narrator moves between intimate sympathy and commentary on the town.

• The History of Tom Jones, a FoundlingRelated: Fielding’s narrator addresses readers directly and comments on the story’s moral and artistic choices.