申芙蓉堂의 삶과 문학 연구

Abstract

In this writing, the life and literary world of Shin-Buyongdang will be inquired by looking at her poems, proses, and other people’s records about her. Her nephew Shin-Suksang’s funeral oration for her implicitly shows her life and literature. “She have studied classical poems of Han·Wei. And her five words poems and seven words poems were deeply influenced by Lady Tangshang (唐山夫人)’s ‘Ansebangjungga’ (安世房中歌).” Especially her literary world is represented by poems written in classical Chinese which were a part of self-expression, and proses which were the message to the relatives. However, the substance of those two different genres were same in the way that it is about worthily fulfilling sadaebu’s norms in everyday life. Shin’s literary world reflects her way of life. As a woman from a sadaebu, noble family, she accepted norms at that time as a value, and put emphasis on norm-keeping life. Shin asked her relatives to keep those social norms in their daily lives not to speak of her own life. She wished to share her life with her relatives and intimates. Hitherto, there have not been much in-depth researches on Shin-Buyongdang especially ones exclusively deal with her life and literature. Even though the academic interests on female authors are gradually rising, there have not been much in-depth studies on Shin. Reconstructing Shin’s life and consciousness will deepen the understanding about female life of sadaebu family in the 18th century, and studying on her literary world will deepen the understanding about female authors’ literary training process and the characteristics of its outputs, I expect.