Of all the eighteenth-century novelists ____________ was the fir

Of all the eighteenth-century novelists ____________ was the first to set out, both in the-ory 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