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
Publications
Book Chapter
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The Wealthy, the Brilliant, the Few
Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgements
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Introduction
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1. Introductory Remarks
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2. Starting Points: Eliteness and Education in American Culture
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3. 'Very Important, Very Powerful, or Very Prominent': Eliteness in America
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4. 'Excellence and Equity': Merit as the Price of Admission
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5. 'A Touchy Subject'? Class and Elite Education
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6. Concluding Remarks
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1. Introductory Remarks
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2. Mapping the Critical Landscape
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3. Progressivist Critiques
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4. Conservative Critiques
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5. Concluding Remarks
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1. Introductory Remarks
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2. Elite College Admissions: A Discourse of Impossibility and Pathology
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3. A Meritocracy of Affect
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4. Epistemological Frames: Diversity, the Good Life, Community
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5. Concluding Remarks
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1. Introductory Remarks
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2. Exposition: Fiction in the Discourse of Elite Education
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3. Prep in the Discourse: Publicity, 'Preppiness', and the Neoliberal Imagination
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4. Diversity, Class, Mobility: Prep's Cultural Work
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5. Concluding Remarks
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Conclusion
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Works Cited
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