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.

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