According to the passage, compared to critics trained in "historicist and feminist criticism" earlier critics of Austen were A. more likely to represent her as isolated from the major intellectual currents of her period B. more likely to represent her as departing from Augustan modes of thought C. more likely to find connections between her novels and Romantic poetry D. less likely to neglect the influence of Romantic ideology on her work E. less likely to notice affinities between Austen and her female counterparts