기획논문: 중인층 傳記集 ？？壺山外記？？의 성격과 위상 /논평:임유경

Abstract

This article examines the characteristics of Hosanoegi, the first biography collection for the middle class that appeared toward 1854. Jo Hui-ryong got into action as a non-professional painter in the literary artist's style in the 19th century. This was a rare case with the middle class. He occupied a leading position in the middle class cultural world in 1844-1849. Jo Hui-ryong wrote biographies of people from the middle class who had made outstanding contributions or had courteous elegance, and then collected them to complete Hosanoegi. The basic purpose of this book is as follows. He thought that people with talents but without social fame were essentially not different from those with established social fame. This viewpoint, which can be called an ‘individual detection,’ is a new sensibility that a leading feature in the middle class came to have at that time. He stressed his intimacy with those who were the objects of his biographical works. As a result, the sentences in his biographical works are not stereotyped but predicated vividly. There have appeared 5 biography collections after Hosanoegi, which were not written by him but collected and edited from other literature.