Goethe and inner harmony: a study of the "schèone Seele" in the Apprenticeship of Wilhelm Meister

Study of the structure of Natalie's experience as 'Schone seele' in The Confessions.

The aim of the study is to see whether it is basically a genuine and healthy attitude towards life (with some clear limitations) or whether, it is merely a manifestation of the sentimentality of the eighteenth century which could not survive except as a literary curiosity, a psychological aberration.