Sentence Correction (SC) | Re: The severe deference to classical narrative forms that characterized

The passage talk about the time when Subject X did work Y, so it has to be written in present form of that time. Hence Had is wrong to add before the verb. We can eliminate B, D, and E.

Among A and C,
A have parallelism issue, between "introduced a retrospective vision of the past through his historical novels" And "anticipated the methodologies used by modern historiographers" Which has to have a structure of X AND Y which is missing
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