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bg257d29c2z	Erin E Drew	The Usufructuary Enlightenment: Environmental Thought in Eighteenth-Century Literature	2013		.txt	text/plain	362	11	35	Tracing the concept of usufruct in eighteenth-century literature reveals that the period's writers grappled more profoundly and consistently with the need to reconcile the often-contradictory ethical imperatives to improve human life and steward non-human life than has previously been appreciated by either ecocritics or eighteenth-century scholars. Eighteenth-century writers, I show, were acutely aware of the interdependence of human and non-human beings, and believed that human beings had a responsibility to use nature in a way that would guarantee the ongoing stability of non-human and human life.	cache/bg257d29c2z.txt	txt/bg257d29c2z.txt