问题
单项选择题
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
答案
参考答案：A
解析：
在所有18世纪的小说家中，亨利·菲尔丁第一次在理论与实践上创造了“散文体喜剧史诗”，并第一个为现代小说确立了结构与风格。