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” and 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 theory and practice， to write specifically a “comic epic in prose” and the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.
A、Daniel Defoe
B、Samuel Richardson
C、Henry Fielding
D、Oliver Goldsmith
正确答案：C