encyclopedic fiction

English

Noun

encyclopedic fiction (uncountable)

  1. (literature) Fiction employing a variety of forms to explore its subject exhaustively.
    While ostensibly a romantic novel, Moby Dick can also be viewed as encyclopedic fiction.

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