Of all the eighteenth—century British novelists ______ was the f

Of all the eighteenth—century British novelists ______ was the first to set out，both in theory and practice，to write specially a “comic epic in prose”，the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.
A、Thomas Gray
B、Richard Brinsley Sheridan
C、Jonathan Swift
D、Henry Fielding
【正确答案】：D