Pacific Romanticism: Tahiti and the European Imagination

by Alexander H. Bolyanatz

Europeans' romanticist imaginings of people from the South Pacific have been around since the Enlightenment and have been significantly informed by the accounts of voyages to Tahiti by people such as Louis Bougainville. This book shows that the overtly promiscuous behavior that the French perceived as hospitality on the part of the Tahitians in 1768 was actually a defensive ploy, and that our contemporary image of sex and sexuality in Pacific Island...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0897897870
• ISBN13: 9780897897877
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.2"