Of all the eighteenth-century novelists,（ ）was the first to set

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、D. H. Lawrence
【正确答案】：B
【题目解析】：在十八世纪所有的小说家中，亨利·菲尔丁是第一个在理论和实践上专门写出“散文喜剧史诗”的作家，也是第一位给现代小说确立结构和风格的作家。