Of all the eighteenth-century novelists ______ was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a “comic epic in prose”, the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.
Of all the eighteenth-century novelists ______ was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a “comic epic in prose”, the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.
A.Henry Fielding
B.Daniel Defoe
C.Jonathan Swift
D.Laurence Sterne