world literature
noun
1A body of work drawn from many nations and recognized as literature throughout the world.
2(The sum of) the literature of the world.
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881), author, biographer, and historian. Probably after German Weltliteratur Weltliteratur.
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