19세기 中人層 知識人의 海外體驗 一考 -碧蘆齋 金進洙의 燕行과 「燕京雜詠」을 중심으로-

Abstract

In 18th and 19th century, knowledge was widely produced and possessed and significant internal changes occurred in social classes. Especially, the growth of middle class became a decisive factor in the spread of knowledge among the masses in the period. Knowledge which is internally produced or externally conveyed goes beyond social classes according to who accepts it. In the academic world, literati-intellectuals has been centered in the studies about intellectuals of middle class and their literary works. Researchers revealed aspects and found meanings accordingly. But the range of the studies are limited because intellectuals of middle class played a role in spreading and popularizing knowledge in the late Choson Dynasty. Their works should be evaluated not only with their literary value but also with various aspects of their works and real status of affairs which stimulated cultures of 18th and 19th century. The purpose of this research is to examine works about overseas experiences of intellectuals of middle class to see how they played a part in spreading and popularizing knowledge in the late Choson Dynasty. I realize the first thing is to collect documents of their overseas experiences including firsthand and secondhand experiences like geography books and to analyze the characteristics. As part of the research, I chose [Yeongyeong Jabyoung] by Kim Jinsoo first. [Yeongyeong Jabyoung] is unique as every travel poem has a comment of Hwang Jonghyun who was a contemporary writer of Kim Jinsoo. It clearly shows how he autonomously accepted and conveyed cultural information which he got in Yeongyeong. It is a proper text for my future study about overseas experiences and autonomous acceptance of cultural information and knowledge by intellectuals of middle class. On the other hand it was hard to do a further research about his work, which is composed of poems, annotations and comments, because the dating and the purpose of the travels and the relation with Hwang Jonghyun were not clarified. Therefore in this study, I tried to determine the bibliographic factors and the time of the travels in detail. I also looked at the way how he expressed and accepted the information and the knowledge which he experienced overseas.