What does the author mean by the word "progress" in this passage

A．It's a prosperous city.
B．It has many veterans of war.
C．Its pretty buildings have been torn down.
D．It is no longer an agreeable plac

A．Under the Greenwood Tree: Hardy's Ambiguous Triumph
B．The Real and the Strange: The Novelist's Shifting Realms
C．Hardy's Novelistic Impulses: The Problem of Control
D．Divergent Impulses: The Issue of Unity in the Novel