Stewardship and the Future of the Planet

Rachel Carnell is Professor of English at Cleveland State University. Having published extensively on eighteenth-century literature and politics, she began working on environmental stewardship after unearthing archival references to eighteenth-century lawsuits that described landed estates in terms of expected monetary output. Chris Mounsey is Professor of eighteenth-century cultural studies at the University of Winchester. He has published widely on a range of issues including sexuality, disability, and bioethics. He is series editor of the Routledge Advances in the History of Bioethics.

Introduction: The Contradictory Inflections of Stewardship Part I: Human Self-Perception and Misperception 1. Stewardship and Sense of Place: Assumptions and Ideals 2. "I Was Under No Necessity of Seeking My Bread": Robinson Crusoe and the Stewardship of Resources in Eighteenth-Century England 3. Stewardship in American Literature: Promise and Paradox in the New World Part II: Dystopic Visions of Past, Present, and Future 4. Monstrous Stewardship and the Plantation in Charles Chesnutt’s "The Goophered Grapevine" 5. Human Stewardship and "Reproductive Futurism" in Dystopian Fiction 6 Climate Change and Apocalyptic Literature: Post-Human Stewardship in Paolo Bacigalupi's Drowned Cities Trilogy Part III: Approaches to Contemporary Challenges 7. Political Aspects of Stewardship for Wildlife in the U.S. 8. The Future of the Seascape and the Humanity of Islanders: Focusing on the Korean Archipelago 9. Stewardship of Rangelands in the 21st Century: Managing Complexity from the Margins Part IV: Envisioning the Future 10. Product Stewardship: Ethics and Effectiveness in a Circular Economy 11. An Evolutionary Systems Theoretic Perspective on Global Stewardship 12. Stewardship in the Anthropocene: Meanings, Tensions, Futures