Of all the eighteenth - century

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、Daniel Defoe
B、Henry Fielding
C、Jonathan Swift
D、Laurence Sterne
【正确答案】：B
【题目解析】：教材121第二段。在所有十八世纪的小说家中，菲尔丁第一个在理论和实践上创作了“散文体戏剧史诗”，并第一个为现代小说确立了结构与风格。