According to the author of the passage, Stilgoe uses the phrase "romantic-era distrust" to imply that the view he is referring to was A. the attitude of a minority of intellectuals toward technological innovation that began after 1830 B. a commonly held attitude toward the railroad during the 1830s C. an ambivalent view of the railroad expressed by many poets and novelists between 1880 and 1930 D. a critique of social and economic developments during the 1830s by a minority of intellectuals E. an attitude toward the railroad that was disseminated by works of popular culture after 1880