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In this Year of Great Books bonus discussion, Laura Miller talked to two experts about The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. She asked them about the role of sentiment in Sterne’s work, all those nose jokes, and what we can make of Walter’s dependency on learned texts and authorities. Laura talks to author Francis Spufford and to assistant professor of English Jess Keiser of Tufts University.
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