Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Introduction: "Usufruct" and the Eighteenth Century in Environmental Criticism
1. The Usufructuary Ethos: Roots and Branches
2. Trees, Posterity, and the Socio-Environmental Landlord
3. Pope and the Usufructuary Ethics of the "Use of Riches"
4. Monocultures, Georgics, and the Transformation of the Usufructuary Ethos
Conclusion: The Usufructuary Ethos-Legacies
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Recent Winners of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize