Carrie
Shanafelt
Carrie Shanafelt is an interdisciplinary scholar of literature and philosophy of the long eighteenth century in Great Britain and the Americas. Her research engages with eighteenth-century legal and economic theory, ethics, gender, sexuality, slavery, and aesthetics. She is the Philosophy reviews editor of the Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
Book:
Uncommon Sense: Jeremy Bentham, Queer Aesthetics, and the Politics of Taste (University of Virginia Press, 2022)
Peer-Reviewed Articles:
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“‘A World of Debt’: Quobna Ottobah Cugoano, The Wealth of Nations, and the End of Finance,”&Բ;Eighteenth-Century Studies 55, no. 1 (2021), pp. 21-43
“Jeremy Bentham and the Aesthetics of Sexual Difference,”&Բ;The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 61, no. 3 (2020), pp. 335-352
“Against Rights: Jeremy Bentham on Sexual Liberty and Legal Reform,”&Բ;Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory 31.3 (2020), pp. 203-221
“On Teaching Early Gothic Fiction and Non-Empiricist Aesthetics,”&Բ;College English Association Forum 43.2 (2014), pp. 1-18
“Vicarious Sex and the Vulnerable Eighteenth-Century Reader,”&Բ;Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory 24.4 (2013), pp. 261-277
Book Chapters:
“Doubt,”&Բ;Oxford Handbook of Samuel Johnson, ed. Jack Lynch, Oxford Univ. Press (2022), pp. 567-581
“The ‘Plexed Artistry’ of Nabokov and Johnson” Samuel Johnson Among the Modernists, ed. Anthony Lee (Clemson: Clemson Univ. Press, 2019), pp. 165-187
“The Rhetoric of Consensus: Hume and Fielding on Moral Sentiment” David Hume: A Tercentenary Tribute, ed. Stanley Tweyman (Ann Arbor: Caravan, 2013), pp. 85-106
Other:
Review of Mattie Burkert, Speculative Enterprise: Public Theaters and Financial Markets in London, 1688-1763, in Eighteenth-Century Studies, 56.4 (2023), pp. 649-651
Review of Christopher Looby, ed., The Man Who Thought Himself a Woman and other Queer Nineteenth-Century Short Stories, in ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts 12.1 (2022)
Review of Katherine Binhammer, Downward Mobility: The Form of Capital and the Sentimental Novel, in ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts 11.2 (2021)
Review of Paul Kelleher, Making Love: Sentiment and Sexuality in Eighteenth-Century British Literature, in The Shandean 27 (2017), pp. 158-159
Review of Hannah Lavery, The Impotency Poem from Ancient Latin to Restoration Literature, in Renaissance Quarterly 69.2 (2016), pp. 796-798