"Something Evermore about to Be: The Transformation of Hope in the Romantic Era"

Adam Potkay is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Humanities and Professor of English at the College of William & Mary, Virginia, USA.  His most recent books are Wordsworth’s Ethics (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012) and The Story of Joy from the Bible to Late Romanticism (Cambridge University Press, 2007), winner of the American Comparative Literature Association’s Harry Levin Prize.  The Story of Joy has been translated into Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, and Polish.  Professor Potkay is currently working on a glossary of ethics/emotions in literature.