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The Silence of Dean Maitland is one of twenty-five works from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries reissued in 2020 in a project professing to give overdue credit to authors by replacing nonfemale pseudonyms with the authors' given female names (crediting Mary Tuttiett rather than Maxwell Gray, in this case). Olivia Rutigliano and other scholars cite a lack of nuance and erasure of intention in the implication that pseudonymous identities were invariably necessary due to social roles, appropriately contending that what may have been a constraint for some was an elective exercise in self-fashioning for others.
Which choice best describes the overall structure of the text?
A literary project is briefly described, the stance taken by Rutigliano and others in response to that project is introduced, and then support for that stance is expressed.
A
Details about a reissue of The Silence of Dean Maitland are given, a question about the authorship of that work is raised, and then the circumstances of the work's original publication are considered.
B
The Silence of Dean Maitland is cited as a prominent work from a literary movement, a study of the movement's defining features is mentioned, and then one of the study's insights is presented.
C
An assertion about a literary project is reported, the team of scholars that advanced the assertion is identified, and then the reasoning behind the assertion is summarized.
D