According to the passage, the lack of critical attention paid to Jane Austin can be explai

According to the passage, the lack of critical attention paid to Jane Austin can be explained by all of the following nineteenth-century attitudes toward the novel EXCEPT ______.

A．the assurance felt by many people that novels weakened the mind

B．the certainty shared by many political commentators that the range of novels was too narrow

C．the lack of interest shown by some critics in novels that were published anonymously

D．the fear exhibited by some critics in novels that had the power to portray immoral characters attractively