Jeffery Vail

Teaching Interests

Literature, moral philosophy, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British poetry and prose

Research Interests

British and Irish Romanticism

Selected Publications

Books

The Unpublished Letters of Thomas Moore. 2 vols. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2013.

[Explanatory notes.] Byron, Lord George Gordon. Selected Poetry of Lord Byron. Ed. Leslie A. Marchand. New York: Random House, 2002, 671-742.

The Literary Relationship of Lord Byron and Thomas Moore. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.

Articles and Book Chapters

“Byron, Caroline Lamb, and Samuel Rogers: Unpublished Passages from Moore’s Letters.” Byron Journal 46, no. 1 (2018) 63-68. 

“In Memoriam: Charles E. Robinson.” Byron Journal 45, no. 1 (2017), 1-2. 

“Thomas Moore.” The Cambridge Companion to Irish Poets. Ed. Gerald Dawe. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2017, 61-73.

“Thomas Moore and the Prince of Pleasure: George IV as Satirical Inspiration.” Thomas Moore and Romantic Inspiration: Poetry, Music, and Politics. Eds. Sarah McCleave and Brian G. Caraher. New York: Routledge, 2017, 169-84.

“Samuel Rogers: A Passion for Little Girls.” The Wordsworth Circle 42, no. 3 (Summer 2011), 217-25.

“Mourning for Venice: Byron’s ‘Venice: An Ode’ and Moore’s Poetic Response.” Bulletin of the Societe Française des Etudes Byronniennes. (2010), 93-99.

 “Thomas Moore: After the Battle.” The Blackwell Companion to Irish Literature. Ed. Julia M. Wright. 2 vols. New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010, vol. 1, 310-25.

 “‘Little’s leadless pistol’: Byron’s Turn from Erotic Poetry to Popeian Satire.” Lord Byron: “Correspondence(s)”.  Ed. Christiane Vigouroux. Paris: François-Xavier de Guibert, 2008, 365-72.

“Lord Byron’s Canons: Introduction.” Romanticism on the Net 43 (2006).

“The Standard of Revolt: Revolution and National Independence in Moore’s Lalla Rookh.” Romanticism on the Net 40 (2005).

 “A Romantic Satirist in the Age of Peel: Eight New Poems by Thomas Moore.” Keats-Shelley Journal 54 (2005), 42-62.

“Thomas Moore in Ireland and America: The Growth of a Poet’s Mind.” Romanticism 10.1 (2004), 41-62.

 “‘The Ninth of November, Lord Mayor’s Day, An Ode’: A Burlesque Newly Attributed to Thomas Moore.” Victorian Periodicals Review 36, no. 4 (Winter 2003), 364-72.

“Reading and Writing Thomas Moore’s Biography of Byron.” Byronic Negotiations. Ed. Katrina Bachinger. Vienna: Peter Lang Europäischer Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2002, 24-39.

“Byron’s ‘Impromptu on a Recent Incident’: A New Text of a Regency Squib.” Keats-Shelley Journal 47 (1998), 29-31.

“‘My bright twin sister of the sky’: Manfred, Moore’s Loves of the Angels, and the Shadow of Augusta Leigh.” Byron Journal 26 (1998), 29-38.

 “‘The bright sun was extinguish’d’: The Bologna Prophecy and Byron’s ‘Darkness.’” The Wordsworth  Circle 28, no. 3 (Summer 1997), 183-92.

Selected Speeches and Presentations

“Byron, Thomas Moore, and Don Juan” Byron’s Don Juan: A Bicentennial Symposium, DePaul University, Chicago (19 October 2019).

“Byron and Metaphysics.” 42^nd International Byron Society Conference, Paris, France (4-7 July 2016).

“From the Ashes: Byron’s Memoirs and Moore’s Reconstruction of Byron”. South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference 86, Atlanta, Georgia (November 7-9, 2014).

“‘My Inheritance of Storms’: Byron’s Body and Byron’s Poetry.” 36^th International Byron Society Conference, Boston, USA (26-31 July 2010).

“Thomas Moore: After the Battle.” International Perspectives on Thomas Moore, Queen’s University, Belfast, Ireland (4-5 April 2009).

“Editing the Unpublished Correspondence of Thomas Moore.” Thomas Moore: Texts/ Contexts/Hypertext, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland (28-29 November 2008).

“‘Little’s Leadless Pistol’: Byron’s Turn from Erotic Poetry to Satire.” 32^nd International Byron Society Conference, Sorbonne, Paris, France (14-17 June 2006).

“Mourning for Venice: Byron’s ‘Venice: An Ode’ and Moore’s ‘Extract VI.’” 31^st International Byron Society Conference, Dublin, Ireland (1-5 August 2005).

[Session chaired] “Lord Byron and Romantic Politics.” Annual Byron Society Session, Modern Language Association Convention (December 28-30, 2002)

“Moore’s Biography of Byron: Strategy, Reception, Influence.” 21^st International Byron Society Conference, Salzburg, Austria (1-3 August 1995).

Other Professional Activity and/or Awards

Peyton Richter Award–awarded for excellence in interdisciplinary teaching (2013)

Member, Board of Directors, Byron Society of America.