Sir your plan backfired magnificantly.
But in regards to your topic i'd address somewhere how literature is a passageway for a culture's enlightenment. By reading foreign material a culture is able to compare and contrast its history and society to that of others and learn from what they see. A culture's youth also learns about its own history through homegrown literature which is central to maintaining cultural identity and indipendance.
Literature also allowed for the growth of popularity of the large variety of vernacular languages which descended from the ancients (Latin, Arabic, Hebrew, Sanskrit, etc) Less well known languages such as the english, spanish and french we see today were standardized and popularized through literature and print capitalism. as a result. culture groups within the empires of Europe and Asia were able to create an identity amongst one another based on common language. This was the first step towards the emergence of nationalism as we see it in those regions. (Poles speaking Polish, Germans speaking German, Persians speaking Persian.)
Hope i helped.