The Glove as Fetish Object in Eighteenth-Century Fiction and Culture.

This essay focuses on eighteenth-century women's gloving practices and representations of women's gloves in the period. Through close readings of the gloving scenes in William Hogarth's A Harlot's Progress (1732), Samuel Richardson's Clarissa (1747–48), and Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental Journey th...

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Published in:Eighteenth Century Fiction Vol. 31; no. 2; pp. 317 - 343
Main Author: Hutchings-Goetz, Tracey
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Published: University of Toronto Press Winter2018
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