Captain Scott rewrote his story: January–June 1911

IF 1.4 4区环境科学与生态学 Q3 ECOLOGY

Polar Record Pub Date : 2022-01-10 DOI:10.1017/s0032247421000723

Bill Alp

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Abstract This article reveals that Captain Robert Falcon Scott rewrote his Terra Nova journals for the period 24 January to 18 June 1911, making extensive changes, in places. He made carbon copies of his journal from then until 31 October 1911. The Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) holds the combined manuscript as Carbon copy of diary as leader of British Antarctic Expedition, Jan. to Oct. 1911 with reference number RFS/1. This little-known version of Scott’s journals has apparently been overlooked by many researchers and scholars. The main research question addressed by the article is: “What was the significance of Captain Scott rewriting his story?” The article reviews two versions of Scott’s story – the published narrative Scott’s Last Expedition, and RFS/1. It investigates the provenance of each version and then reviews differences between the two texts. Three key differences stand out, suggesting the underlying pressures that drove Scott to rewrite his story in mid-1911. The article touches upon editorial changes made by Leonard Huxley in compiling Scott’s Last Expedition and contrasts those changes with changes made by Scott when rewriting the same passages. It also investigates the provenance of a typescript version of RFS/1 held by Canterbury Museum.

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斯科特船长改写了他的故事:1911年1月至6月

本文揭示了罗伯特·法尔肯·斯科特船长改写了1911年1月24日至6月18日期间的泰拉诺瓦日志，并在一些地方做了大量修改。从那时起直到1911年10月31日，他一直在复印日记。英国皇家地理学会(与IBG一起)保存了合并后的手稿，作为1911年1月至10月英国南极考察队队长日记的复本，参考编号为RFS/1。这个鲜为人知的斯科特期刊版本显然被许多研究人员和学者所忽视。这篇文章的主要研究问题是:“斯科特船长重写他的故事的意义是什么?”本文回顾了斯科特的故事的两个版本——《斯科特的最后一次探险》和《RFS/1》。它调查了每个版本的来源，然后回顾了两个文本之间的差异。三个关键的不同之处凸显出来，表明驱使斯科特在1911年年中重写他的故事的潜在压力。本文探讨了伦纳德·赫胥黎在编辑《斯科特的最后一次探险》时所做的编辑修改，并将这些修改与斯科特在重写同一段落时所做的修改进行了对比。它还调查了坎特伯雷博物馆持有的RFS/1的打字版本的来源。

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Polar Record 环境科学-环境科学

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1.40

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25.00%

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>36 weeks

期刊介绍： Polar Record is an international, peer-reviewed scholarly periodical publishing results from a wide range of polar research areas. The journal covers original primary research papers in the humanities, social sciences, physical sciences, life sciences, and polar technology, as well as papers concerning current political, economic, legal, and environmental issues in the Arctic or Antarctic. Polar Record endeavours to provide rapid publication, normally within nine months of initial submission.