'This an immensely informative and intelligent book.' E. G. Wickersham, Choice
1. Rethinking the Bildungsroman; 2. The picaresque novel: Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship II-VI; 3. The comic novel: Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship I, VII and VIII; 4. Interlude: the 'Sick Prince'; 5. The romance: Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years.