Daniel Carey is a graduate of McGill University, Trinity College Dublin, and Oxford University where he took his D.Phil. His book on Locke, Shaftesbury, and Hutcheson: Contesting Diversity in the Enlightenment and Beyond appeared with Cambridge University Press in 2006, and he is currently completing a cultural history of travel in the Renaissance for Columbia University Press. He has published in a range of interdisciplinary journals on literature, the history of philosophy, history of science, anthropology, and travel. His teaching interests include Renaissance literature, Shakespeare, Renaissance drama, the eighteenth century, and Romanticism.

Work in progress includes two edited volumes on theories of money and political economy in the Enlightenment, an edited collection on slavery, an edited collection on The Postcolonial Enlightenment, and an edition of Henry Neville, The Isle of Pines (1668).

He welcomes inquiries about PhD study in any of the above areas of specialisation.

Books
Locke, Shaftesbury, and Hutcheson: Contesting Diversity in the Enlightenment and Beyond. Ideas in Context 74 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006). 260pp. + x.

The Empire of Credit: The Financial Revolution in the British Atlantic World, 1688-1815, ed. Daniel Carey and Christopher J. Finlay (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2011). 302pp. + xviii.

The Postcolonial Englightenment: Eighteenth-Century Colonialism and Postcolonial Theory, ed. Daniel Carey and Lynn Festa (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009).

Asian Travel in the Renaissance, ed. Daniel Carey, preface by Anthony Reid (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004). 234pp. +xi

Les voyages de Gulliver: mondes lointains ou mondes proches,ed. Daniel Carey and François Boulaire (Caen: Presses universitaires de Caen, 2002). 173pp.

Articles
’An Empire of Credit: English, Scottish, Irish, and American Contexts’, in The Empire of Credit: The Financial Revolution in the British Atlantic World, 1688-1815, ed. Daniel Carey and Christopher Finlay (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2011), 1-22.

’John Locke, Money, and Credit’, in The Empire of Credit: The Financial Revolution in the British Atlantic World, 1688-1815, ed. Daniel Carey and Christopher J. Finlay (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2011), 25-51.

’Preface’, in The Empire of Credit: The Financial Revolution in the British Atlantic World, 1688-1815, ed. Daniel Carey and Christopher J. Finlay (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2011), xiii-xviii.

’The State of Play: English Literary Scholarship and Criticism in a New Century’, Cadernos de Letras (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), no. 27 (2010): 16-32. http://www.letras.ufrj.br/anglo_germanicas/cadernos/numeros/122010/textos/cl301220100danielcarey.pdf

’Henry Neville’s The Isle of Pines: From Sexual Utopia to Political Dystopia’, in New Worlds Reflected: Travel and Utopia in the Early Modern Period, ed. Chloë Houston (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2010), 203-18.

’Innateness’, in The Continuum Companion to Locke, ed. S.-J. Savonius-Wroth, Paul Schuurman, and Jonathan Walmsley (London: Continuum, 2010), 165-8.

’Foreword’, ROPES Review of Postgraduate Studies 18 (2010): 1-2.

Continental Travel and Journeys beyond Europe in the Early Modern Period: An Overlooked Connection. The Hakluyt Society Annual Lecture, 2008 (London: The Hakluyt Society, 2009). 23pp.

’Introduction: Early Modern Travel Writing: Varieties, Transitions, Horizons’ (with Claire Jowitt), Studies in Travel Writing 13:2 (2009): 95-8. ’Hakluyt’s Instructions: The Principal Navigations and Sixteenth-Century Travel Advice’,

Studies in Travel Writing 13:2 (2009): 167-85. ’Introduction: Some Answers to the Question: “What is Postcolonial Enlightenment?”’ (with Lynn Festa), in The Postcolonial Enlightenment: Eighteenth-Century Colonialism and Postcolonial Theory, ed. Daniel Carey and Lynn Festa (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), 1-33.

’Reading Contrapuntally: Robinson Crusoe, Slavery, and Postcolonial Theory’, in The Postcolonial Enlightenment: Eighteenth-Century Colonialism and Postcolonial Theory, ed. Daniel Carey and Lynn Festa (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), 105-36.

’Universalism, Diversity, and the Postcolonial Enlightenment’ (with Sven Trakulhun), in The Postcolonial Enlightenment: Eighteenth-Century Colonialism and Postcolonial Theory, ed. Daniel Carey and Lynn Festa (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), 240-80.

’A Bibliography of James W. Carey Compiled by Daniel Carey’, in James W. Carey, Communication as Culture: Essays on Media and Society, rev. ed. (New York: Routledge, 2009), 185-98.

Early modern travel writing; literature and colonialism; early modern literature and philosophy; John Locke; seventeenth-century literature and science; eighteenth-century fiction, esp. Defoe; the Enlightenment and postcolonial theory.