The phrase "literary scope" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to the range or extent of literature covered in a particular context, such as a study or analysis.
Example: "The literary scope of this research includes works from the 19th century to contemporary literature."
Alternatives: "literary range" or "literary breadth."
Some Hindi, Bengali or Malayalam novels do outsell most Indian English-language novels, but in literary heft, the scope of subjects and what it aspires to transmit, the Indian English novel has the strut of national literature.
When war broke out, however, her literary talents found more scope.
This kind of aggregation was arguably more fashionable then than it is now; no one since has attempted a literary project of similar scope, which Orthofer attributes to the Internet's fragility, and the speed at which links rot.
The nonfiction novels of Norman Mailer (The Executioner's Song) or Truman Capote (In Cold Blood) changed the literary landscape, but the scope for further innovation was quickly noticed by the young Annie Dillard.
It was to be essentially a literary review, but "Its scope is wide enough to include almost everything of interest to people of culture with the exception of economics and contemporary politics".
These ways of writing — word processing, databasing, recycling, appropriating, intentionally plagiarizing, identity ciphering, and intensive programming, to name just a few — have traditionally been considered outside the scope of literary practice.
But Hahn concluded that "Roll, Jordan, Roll," with its broad scope and literary touches, "may well be the finest work on slavery ever produced".
Acknowledging such subjectivity, however, is seemingly beyond the scope of literary critics like Stothard -- which is why, when it comes to the question of book blogging, his concern defaults to fear, not of new vehicles for opinion, but of a sudden wealth of opinions with which he disagrees.
Her literary standing grew as the scope of her fiction expanded with these novels, set in situations of international drama and crisis – Scott's last expedition to the Antarctic in The Birthday Boys (1991), the Titanic's maiden voyage in Every Man for Himself (1996), the Crimean war in Master Georgie (1998).
One test of good writing is whether it expands the scope of what seems literary.
