Of all the eighteenth-century novelists ______ was the first to

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
【正确答案】：A