Of all the 18th century novelists, ______was the first to set out in theory and practice, to write specially a “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
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Through journalistic enterprises such as the Tatler and the Spectator____ and ____developed one of the most characteristic types of eighteenth-century literature, the periodical essay.
A. Jonathan Swift
B. Joseph Addison
C. Richard Steele
Daniel Defoe
The literature of the Restoration and the 18th Century witnessed a sudden change of taste seemed to occur around 1660. Reacting against the difficulty and occasional extravagance of late Renaissance literature, writers and critics called for a new restraint, clarity, regularity, and good sense.
A. 对
B. 错
In Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock, the familiar devices of epic are observed, but the incidents or characters are beautifully proportioned to the scale of mock epic.
A. 对
B. 错
As a master of prose, Swift defined a good style as “proper words in proper places.”
A. 对
B. 错