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work_segzvcjpebehjdhiv6ikyhgqey	William Nelles	Omniscience for Atheists: Or, Jane Austen's Infallible Narrator	2006	14	.pdf	application/pdf	8165	496	65	To get ahead of myself for a moment, I'll argue that Austen's narrators are more accurately described as "infallible" than "omniscient": at least on the basis of these The fourth attribute of omniscience, perhaps the one we think of first, is telepathy or mind reading, the ability to narrate characters' thoughts and feelings. necessary, Austen takes pains to naturalize the narrator's knowledge, as when the details of Sir Walter's birth and family are given by means of his own reading of his Austen narrator can only read minds within a radius of three miles of her protagonist; privilege of omniscience that her narrators enjoy, then, is their ability to read characters' minds. Austen's narrator does have the ability to read Sir Thomas's mind, but Mrs. Norris Jane Austen can tell us what Mrs. Weston is thinking, why not what Frank Churchill from Booth's: the narrator's ability to read Mrs. Weston's mind, but not Frank	./cache/work_segzvcjpebehjdhiv6ikyhgqey.pdf	./txt/work_segzvcjpebehjdhiv6ikyhgqey.txt