【单选题】Which of the following statements about Victorian literature is NOT true?( )4
A.
Novels became the most widely read and the most vital and challenging expression of progressive thought.
B.
Victorian novelists were angry with the inhuman social institutions, the decaying social morality, the widespread misery, poverty and injustice.
C.
Influenced by a particularly strict set of moral standards, Victorian writers like Oscar Wilde, advocated the old moderate, respectable life-style. (057)
D.
Victorian prose writers joined forces with the critical realist novelists in exposing and criticizing the social reality.