[Vwoolf] Virginia Woolf boot

Childress, Marcia Day (mdf4e) mdf4e at virginia.edu
Tue Dec 10 16:07:50 EST 2019


And then there are the empty shoes in Jacob's Room ….

Marcia Day Childress PhD (she/her/hers)
Associate Professor of Medical Education
David A. Harrison III Distinguished Educator
Director, Programs in Humanities
Director, Medical Center Hour
Center for Health Humanities and Ethics
University of Virginia School of Medicine
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From: Vwoolf <vwoolf-bounces+mdf4e=virginia.edu at lists.osu.edu> on behalf of Jeremy Hawthorn via Vwoolf <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu>
Reply-To: Jeremy Hawthorn <jeremy.hawthorn at ntnu.no>
Date: Tuesday, December 10, 2019 at 4:03 PM
To: "vwoolf at lists.osu.edu" <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu>
Subject: [Vwoolf] Virginia Woolf boot

Well, this did send me back to the text of To the Lighthouse to find the sequence where Lily praises Mr Ramsay's boots. The novel is actually full of boots. There is an artist in Panama hat and yellow boots, Mrs Ramsay reports that her husband would talk by the hour about his boots, and Mr Bankes felt felt rigid and barren, like a pair of boots that have been soaked and gone dry so that you can hardly force your feet into them. A rough count in an electronic text reveals that "boot" and its cognates occur 24 times in the novel. Is Van Gogh lurking somewhere in the text?

Jeremy Hawthorn

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