Who on earth was William Gilbert?
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Michael Caines on the little-known romantic William Gilbert, a \\u201cman of fine genius\\u201d (according to William Wordsworth) who had \\u201cunfortunately received a few rays of supernatural light through a crack in his upper story\\u201d; Daniel Beer tells the tale of the Gulag at Solovki, a converted monastery known as \\u201cthe Paris of the Northern concentration camps\\u201d, a place of brutality but also of resistant culture and ideas; finally, Laurence Scott considers the cultural history of shoeshining, from Dickens to Police Squad
Books
William Gilbert and Esoteric Romanticism by Paul Cheshire
Intellectual Life and Literature at Solovki, 1923\\u20131930: The Paris of the northern concentration camps by Andrea Gullotta
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