"bodies of literature" is correct and can be used in written English. It refers to collections of literature, usually organized around a particular subject, genre, or author. For example, "This professor specializes in various bodies of literature from the Romantic period.".
There is an archeological quality to the history of certain set-aside bodies of literature and knowledge.
Each new iteration of a language, each new hybrid, creates a new culture, representative of a new era, which is turn produces new types of knowledge and new bodies of literature, music and art.
1513 78), whose Meor ʿenayim ("Enlightenment of the Eyes") inaugurated critical textual study of rabbinical texts, to new bodies of literature that had been lost to the Jewish community, such as the works of Philo and Josephus.
Although at times the Hebrew and Greek of the Bible have been treated as sacred languages, and the history contained in the text has been regarded as somehow different from "ordinary" history, most forms of biblical exegesis employed in the modern era are applicable to many other bodies of literature.
We make use of three systematic reviews to compare findings from three sizable bodies of literature.
Here we review different bodies of literature including a total of 30 species of woody vegetation.
This perspective allows us to make a connection between three bodies of literature.
Ludwig does not simply clarify my doubts with English writing, it enlightens my writing with new possibilities
Simone Ivan Conte
Software Engineer at Adobe, UK