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<DIV>NASH, John, "Exhibiting the Example: Virginia Woolf's Shoes",
Twentieth_Century_Literature, 2013, LIX,2:283-308</DIV>
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<DIV>“My focus is on Night and Day, Jacob’s Room and the essays and reviews of
literary</DIV>
<DIV>tourism (or literary geography, as she also called it).</DIV>
<DIV>“In these works, Woolf often associates shoes with particular
museological</DIV>
<DIV>contexts so that they become for her a kind of shorthand by which</DIV>
<DIV>she questions practices of exhibition and exemplification—issues that
go</DIV>
<DIV>to the heart of her career-long concern with modes of representation</DIV>
<DIV>and perception. Shoes feature less as personal memorials (heavy with
the</DIV>
<DIV>weight of pathos) and more as figures in a narrative mode which
foregrounds</DIV>
<DIV>the selection, artifice, and experience of the exhibited example.”</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>The author certainly knows his Woolf. When we come to ND:</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>‘jadedness and disaffection</DIV>
<DIV>now define Katharine’s relationship with the great men of the past;</DIV>
<DIV>this time it is the visitor, an “American lady who had come to be
shown</DIV>
<DIV>the relics” (331), who singles out the slippers. “‘What! His very own</DIV>
<DIV>slippers!’ Laying aside the manuscript, she hastily grasped the old
shoes,</DIV>
<DIV>and remained for a moment dumb in contemplation of them” (333).</DIV>
<DIV>The writers’ shoes have become the focus of a satire on the
“sentimental</DIV>
<DIV>journeys” (“Howarth” 5) of the literary tourist’s “dumb” admiration
and</DIV>
<DIV>despoiling “grasp.”’</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>The scene is sufficiently extensive, providing enough material for us to
discuss/argue about Woolf’s “real” views about the relics of the dead. So,
the scene can arguably fit the author’s contention.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>However, when we come to “Jacob’s Room”, all we have is:</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>‘“What am I to do with these, Mr. Bonamy?”</DIV>
<DIV>‘She held out a pair of Jacob’s old shoes.’</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>These are the last 2 lines of the book There isn’t an immediate
Woolfian context for interpretation, except the whole book.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>The reader may be puzzled, of course. Jacques-Émile Blanche recounted
that while staying at</DIV>
<DIV>the Belgrave Hotel in London in 1925:</DIV>
<DIV>“I had left some of my papers and books in the reading-room when I was
called away</DIV>
<DIV>to answer a telephone call. [. . .] When I returned I found two women
turning over</DIV>
<DIV>the pages of a book that belonged to me. One of them was saying to the
other: ‘Can</DIV>
<DIV>you make anything of it? Have you heard of the writer? It really makes you
think</DIV>
<DIV>you’ve gone off your head! Was that boy Jacob killed in the War? And what’s
all that</DIV>
<DIV>about *boots*?” </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Nonetheless, critics are generally agreed that this is a moment of pathos,
or, as Nash puts it, there is “a long critical history in Woolf</DIV>
<DIV>studies which emphasizes metonymy and pathos in the closing scene.”
He specifically names Bill Brown, Alex Zwerdling, Laura Marcus, and Robert
Reginio.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Instead, he argues “against this critical consensus ... Instead, this essay
asks *why* shoes came to seem so important</DIV>
<DIV>to Woolf and finds the answer in her critique of literary tourism.”</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>This is all very well, but no one reading JR for even the umpteenth time
could possibly deduce from the text that when Mrs Flanders asks, “What am I to
do with these, Mr. Bonamy?”, there could possibly be a hidden critique of
‘museology’. You may use JR as yet another example of Woolf’s fascination with
shoes and boots, but it is absurd to gainsay the pathos of the last 2 lines of
the novel. You don’t have to be persuaded by the pathos, but what can be
intended by Woolf except some form of pathos?</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Stuart</DIV>
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