Sophie Spieler

Sophie Spieler studied American Studies, German, and English at the Universities of Greifswald, Dresden, and, as a Fulbright Scholar, at Fairfield University (CT, USA). She received her PhD from the Graduate School of the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. She has published on class, capital, and education as well as masculinity studies, Edith Wharton, and post-feminism.

transcript-Publications in the Research Fields: Architecture, Architecture and Design, Cultural Studies, Cultural Studies, English and American Literature Studies, Literary Studies

Publications in the Series: American Culture Studies

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Sophie Spieler
The Wealthy, the Brilliant, the Few

Elite Education in Contemporary American Discourse

Sophie Spieler explores elite education and its peculiar position in American cultural discourse, focusing particularly on the negotiation of merit.

Book Chapter

  1. The Wealthy, the Brilliant, the Few

    Frontmatter

     Seiten 1 - 4

  2. Contents

     Seiten 5 - 6

  3. Acknowledgements

     Seiten 7 - 8

  4. Introduction

     Seiten 9 - 20

  5. 1. Introductory Remarks

     Seite 21

  6. 2. Starting Points: Eliteness and Education in American Culture

     Seiten 21 - 29

  7. 3. 'Very Important, Very Powerful, or Very Prominent': Eliteness in America

     Seiten 29 - 50

  8. 4. 'Excellence and Equity': Merit as the Price of Admission

     Seiten 50 - 58

  9. 5. 'A Touchy Subject'? Class and Elite Education

     Seiten 58 - 67

  10. 6. Concluding Remarks

     Seiten 67 - 68

  11. 1. Introductory Remarks

     Seiten 69 - 73

  12. 2. Mapping the Critical Landscape

     Seiten 73 - 83

  13. 3. Progressivist Critiques

     Seiten 83 - 95

  14. 4. Conservative Critiques

     Seiten 95 - 109

  15. 5. Concluding Remarks

     Seiten 110 - 112

  16. 1. Introductory Remarks

     Seiten 113 - 118

  17. 2. Elite College Admissions: A Discourse of Impossibility and Pathology

     Seiten 118 - 123

  18. 3. A Meritocracy of Affect

     Seiten 123 - 135

  19. 4. Epistemological Frames: Diversity, the Good Life, Community

     Seiten 135 - 170

  20. 5. Concluding Remarks

     Seiten 170 - 174

  21. 1. Introductory Remarks

     Seiten 175 - 178

  22. 2. Exposition: Fiction in the Discourse of Elite Education

     Seiten 178 - 186

  23. 3. Prep in the Discourse: Publicity, 'Preppiness', and the Neoliberal Imagination

     Seiten 186 - 211

  24. 4. Diversity, Class, Mobility: Prep's Cultural Work

     Seiten 211 - 242

  25. 5. Concluding Remarks

     Seiten 242 - 248

  26. Conclusion

     Seiten 249 - 256

  27. Works Cited

     Seiten 257 - 276

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