Approaches to Annotation: Insights and Challenges Editing Hogg and Woolf

In this session Dr Megan Coyer and Dr Annie Strausa will reflect on both the insights gained and challenges faced while producing annotations for two major textual editing projects. What are the different challenges faced by editors annotating modernist short fiction versus short fiction (and poetry) from a late Romantic-era periodical? What specific opportunities and quandaries do Woolf and Hogg generate as authors? Megan and Annie will discuss their puzzles, the ways they have solved them, and the broader insights that have emerged from their work.

Dr Megan Coyer is in the final stages of completing her edition of James Hogg, Contributions to Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, which is forthcoming later this year from Edinburgh University Press as part of The Stirling / South Carolina Research Edition. In the final years of Hogg’s life, Fraser’s became the most important outlet for his shorter writings, usurping the previous centrality of Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine. This volume collects for the first time Hogg’s many and various contributions to Fraser’s and presents them in a reliable scholarly form, complete with a wide-ranging introduction, explanatory notes, appendices and glossary

Dr Annie Strausa is an MHRA Research Fellow assisting with the completion of the forthcoming Cambridge Edition of Virginia Woolf’s collected shorter fiction, edited by Professor Bryony Randall. This will be the first full scholarly edition of Woolf’s shorter fiction—a major contribution to Woolf studies and modernist scholarship. Through meticulous annotation and collation of 86 extant pieces, including several previously unpublished texts, this edition will provide readers with a richly contextualised understanding of the complex, inventive, and often whimsical references woven throughout Woolf’s vast and varied short fiction.

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