单选题 The author mentions that English hterature "was not part of any academic curriculum" in the early nineteenth century in order to ______.

A、 emphasize the need for Jane Austin to create ordinary, everyday characters in her novels
B、 give support to those religious and political groups that had attacked fiction
C、 give one reason why Jane Austin' s novels received little critical attention in the early nineteenth century
D、 suggest the superiority of an informal and unsystematized approach to the study of literature

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】从第二段These attitudes toward novels help explain why Austin received little attention，可以判断选项C正确。