Albert D. Pionke is the William and Margaret Going Endowed Professor of English and Associate Dean of General Education and Academic Affairs in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Alabama.

Albert Pionke examines the poetry of Martineau, Eliot, Webster and EBB in terms of contemporaneous sociological theory and applies a sociological model to the canonical erasure of women. Among other contributions, Pionke extends discussion of Aurora Leigh’s critique of theory beyond Fourier to Blanc, Cabet, Comte, Considerant and Proudhon.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Re-versing Victorian Sociology1. The Socio-poetics of Harriet Martineau and George Eliot2. Social Network Theory in the Poetry of Augusta Webster3. Transcending French Social Thought with Elizabeth Barrett Browning4. The Sociology of Excluding Women Poets from the CurriculumConclusion: Socio-poetic Exclusion beyond the 1880s and the Case of A. Mary F. RobinsonBibliographyIndex

Albert D. Pionke is the William and Margaret Going Endowed Professor of English and Associate Dean of General Education and Academic Affairs in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Alabama.

Albert Pionke examines the poetry of Martineau, Eliot, Webster and EBB in terms of contemporaneous sociological theory and applies a sociological model to the canonical erasure of women. Among other contributions, Pionke extends discussion of Aurora Leigh’s critique of theory beyond Fourier to Blanc, Cabet, Comte, Considerant and Proudhon.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Re-versing Victorian Sociology1. The Socio-poetics of Harriet Martineau and George Eliot2. Social Network Theory in the Poetry of Augusta Webster3. Transcending French Social Thought with Elizabeth Barrett Browning4. The Sociology of Excluding Women Poets from the CurriculumConclusion: Socio-poetic Exclusion beyond the 1880s and the Case of A. Mary F. RobinsonBibliographyIndex

Albert D. Pionke is the William and Margaret Going Endowed Professor of English and Associate Dean of General Education and Academic Affairs in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Alabama.

Albert Pionke examines the poetry of Martineau, Eliot, Webster and EBB in terms of contemporaneous sociological theory and applies a sociological model to the canonical erasure of women. Among other contributions, Pionke extends discussion of Aurora Leigh’s critique of theory beyond Fourier to Blanc, Cabet, Comte, Considerant and Proudhon.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Re-versing Victorian Sociology1. The Socio-poetics of Harriet Martineau and George Eliot2. Social Network Theory in the Poetry of Augusta Webster3. Transcending French Social Thought with Elizabeth Barrett Browning4. The Sociology of Excluding Women Poets from the CurriculumConclusion: Socio-poetic Exclusion beyond the 1880s and the Case of A. Mary F. RobinsonBibliographyIndex