Which of the following is not Samuel Richardson’s epistolary novel ______,
A. Pamela
B. Clarissa
C. Sir Charles Grandison
D. Joseph Andrews
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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
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