The Strange Career of William Ellis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10867426 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anna Johnston (0000-0002-2891-6569) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 491-502 |
| Publication date | 2007-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Victorian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0042-5222 • E-ISSN: 1527-2052 |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2979/vic.2007.49.3.491 |
| OpenAlex | W2140584238 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 10 |
The diverse career of William Ellis—gardener, printer, Pacific \nand Madagascan missionary, ethnographer, London Missionary \nSociety Foreign Secretary, author of at least eight books and \nnumerous pamphlets, fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, father \nof four, and husband of two impressive women—spanned the late eighteenth \nand nineteenth centuries (1794–1872). A working-class boy of \nunknown parentage, Ellis rose to a position of social influence that \ncould only have been effected by the social mobility provided by evangelical \nProtestantism and the British Empire. No less impressive has \nbeen his afterlife in contemporary scholarship, a literary longevity Ellis \nsecured by carefully documenting his encounters with other peoples \nand cultures in the far-flung locales opened by early nineteenthcentury \nimperialism. In crossing between British and colonial cultures, \nEllis provides a prism capable of refracting the complex effects of \nimperial intervention in the Pacific
Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0.22 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2021 (14) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |