A refreshingly unique reading of the most influential German novels. By jettisoning the problematical notion of the Bildungsroman, the second Wilhelm Meister novel is revealed as a sequel to the first. With a broad appeal to scholars and advanced students of German literature, Goethe and the Bildungsroman as a literary genre.
A fresh reading of the Willhelm Meister novels that dismisses the notion of the Bildungsroman to reveal unities between the texts.