Adam Potkay
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Humanities & English
Office:
Tucker Hall 137
Office Hours:
On Research Leave (Fall 2024 and Spring 2025)
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Phone:
757-221-3914
Email:
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Webpage:
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Areas of Specialization
Eighteenth-Century & Romantic Literature
Books
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Potkay, Adam. Wordsworth's Ethics. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. |
Potkay, Adam. The Story of Joy: From the Bible to Late Romanticism. Cambridge UP, 2007. |
Potkay, Adam, ed. Henry Fielding: The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews. (A Longman Cultural Edition, Susan J. Wolfson, ed.) Longman, 2007. |
Potkay, Adam. The Passion for Happiness: Samuel Johnson and David Hume. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2000. |
Potkay, Adam, and Sandra Burr, eds. Black Atlantic Writers of the 18th Century: Living the New Exodus in England and the Americas. New York: St. Martin's, 1995. |
Potkay, Adam. The Fate of Eloquence in the Age of Hume. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1994. |
Potkay, Adam. Hope: A Literary History. Cambridge University Press, March 2022.
Background
B.A., Cornell University; M.A., Johns Hopkins University; Ph.D., Rutgers University
