1. Of all the eighteenth—century British novelists ______ was the first to set out，both in theory practice，to write specially a “comic epic in prose”，the first to give the modern novel its structure style. -湖北继续教育网网校

[单选题]1. Of all the eighteenth—century British novelists ______ was the first to set out，both in theory practice，to write specially a “comic epic in prose”，the first to give the modern novel its structure style.

AThomas Gray

BRichard Brinsley Sheridan