Citations:Bildungsroman

Noun

 * 1911, Encyclopædia Britannica, s:Page:EB1911 - Volume 12.djvu/202
 * Wilhelm Meister is a work of extraordinary variety, ranging from the commonplace realism of the troupe of strolling players to the poetic romanticism of Mignon and the harper; its flashes of intuitive criticism and its weighty apothegms add to its value as a Bildungsroman in the best sense of that word.