Literature
Definitions of literature have varied over time; it is a "culturally relative definition". In Western Europe prior to the eighteenth century, literature as a term indicated all books and writing. A more restricted sense of the term emerged during the Romantic period, in which it began to demarcate "imaginative" literature. Contemporary debates over what constitutes literature can be seen as returning to the older, more inclusive notion of what constitutes literature. Cultural studies, for instance, takes as its subject of analysis both popular and minority genres, in addition to canonical works.
During that 18th century period, literature began to be applied how?
it began to demarcate "imaginative" literature
A more restricted sense of the term emerged during the Romantic period, in which it began to demarcate "imaginative" literature.
literature