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Noun: literary period
  1. A time and place characterized by an assemblage of interrelated cultural, societal, ideological, technological, historic, and other trends in which related groups of authors wrote.
    "Trying to fix a definitive set of dates to a literary period is never straightforward, and our attempts to do so are often somewhat arbitrary."

Type of: age, historic period

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