【单选题】

The primary purpose of the passage is to ______.
A．demonstrate the nineteenth-century preference for realistic novels rather than romantic ones

B．explain why Jane Austin' s novels were not included in any academic curriculum in tile early nineteenth century
C．urge a reassessment of Jane Austin ' s novels by twentieth-century critics
D．describe some of the responses of nineteenth-century critics to Jane Austin' s novels as well as to fiction in general