ABSTRACT
The conclusion brings together the insights of each cosmological reading, arguing that the focus on cosmos has enabled productive and innovative understandings of each creative text—pertaining to the environment with language, culture, memory, affect, genre, narrative, evolution, tropes, figurations, symbolism, ethics and politics. My cosmological lens has also enabled perspectives into the power of creative fiction to enlighten overarching environmental concerns signified by the part titles, Colonisation/Exploitation; Bioethics/Technology; Environmental Justice/Custodianship. Arguing for the unique capacity of literary studies to illuminate concerns of the emerging field of the Environmental Humanities, the conclusion ends by pointing to the need to create dedicated teaching programmes in the Environmental Humanities, as well as to innovate research output for academics, so that the important insights of the field can be communicated more efficiently to the wider public.
