The Wealthy, the Brilliant, the Few : : Elite Education in Contemporary American Discourse.

• Superior document: American Culture Studies ; v.33
• Author: Spieler, Sophie.
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript,, 2021.; Ã2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: American Culture Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (276 pages)

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• I. Exposition: Approaching the Elite Educational Space
• 1. Introductory Remarks
• 2. Starting Points: Eliteness and Education in American Culture
• 3. 'Very Important, Very Powerful, or Very Prominent': Eliteness in America
• 4. 'Excellence and Equity': Merit as the Price of Admission
• 5. 'A Touchy Subject'? Class and Elite Education
• 6. Concluding Remarks
• II. Critique: Elite Education and Its Discontents
• 1. Introductory Remarks
• 2. Mapping the Critical Landscape
• 3. Progressivist Critiques
• 4. Conservative Critiques
• 5. Concluding Remarks
• III. Affirmation: Self-Representation at Princeton University
• 1. Introductory Remarks
• 2. Elite College Admissions: A Discourse of Impossibility and Pathology
• 3. A Meritocracy of Affect
• 4. Epistemological Frames: Diversity, the Good Life, Community
• 5. Concluding Remarks
• IV. Imagination: Fictionalizations of the Elite Educational Experience
• 1. Introductory Remarks
• 2. Exposition: Fiction in the Discourse of Elite Education
• 3. Prep in the Discourse: Publicity, 'Preppiness', and the Neoliberal Imagination
• 4. Diversity, Class, Mobility: Prep's Cultural Work
• 5. Concluding Remarks
• Conclusion
• Works Cited.