Passage 146 The editors of the essay collection Romantic biography tell us repeatedly that biography is an invention of the Romantic period in British literature (late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries), yet we are never shown that process of invention motion. Hazlitt, the most prominent example of the Romantic biographer, is almost invisible. The Romantic period was not just the period in which biography was invented—or, rather, the period in which some of its informing principles were invented, since biography could just as easily be said to have originated in the scandalous memoirs that formed part of the pre-Romantic culture of the novel. It was also the period in which biography, through its sheer ubiquity, became an object of major ideological significance within British culture.
1. The passage mentions the "scandalous memoirs ” that were written prior to the Romantic period primarily in order to
A. indicate an alternative account of the origins of biography
B. compare these memoirs to Romantic biography
C. explain how biography became ubiquitous in British culture
D question the ideological significance accorded to biography
E. suggest that biographies were not as popular as memoir
重点应该是or, rather, 更好看明白的语序是这样的:rather than saying "The Romantic period was (not just) the period in which biography was invented", biography could just as easily be said to have originated in the scandalous memoirs. 这样明白作者真正的重点是在后半句。 一开始我以为第三句本身是一个not just, but also的关系,但第三句和第四句才是not just, but also的关系,第三句内部的romantic period和pre-romantic scandalous memoirs只是一个rather比较的关系