Gerard Cohen-Vrignaud, Radical Orientalism: Rights, Reform, and Romanticism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 268 pp. ISBN: 9781107110328, £64.99.

Valentina P. Aparicio has completed a BA in Hispanic Literature and Linguistics at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and an MSc in Literature and Society (Enlightenment, Romantic and Victorian) at The University of Edinburgh. In January 2017, Valentina will join the English Literature PhD programme at the University of Edinburgh with a research project on Robert Southey’s poetical representations of non-European societies. Some of her research interests include Romantic literature and politics, transatlantic studies, intellectual history and ecocriticism.