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Narrative voice or point-of-view is crucial in novel genre: it is a factor that differentiate novel from other literary genres, and it is novel’s exclusive property. From the beginning of the formation of novel genre, point-of-view has been a constant concern of the novelists as well as an intense topic for the literary critics. In the 18th century novel, we frequently heard a third-person omniscient voice mixed with a first-person author’s intrusion. Jane Austen and Henry James established an impersonal, objective and dramatic narrative technique that enables them to maintain an aesthetic distance from the narrative. Modernists developed complex techniques such as stream of consciousness, interior monologue and multiple points of view. In the postmodern period, novelists demonstrated their acute response to the new sensibilities of the age manipulating self-conscious narrative voice.