鐘山 李參鉉(1807∼1872)의 삶과 글쓰기의 지향점

Abstract

Analyzing Jongsan, Lee Sam-hyun’s collection of literary works, Jongsanjip, I examined a life of Lee Sam-hyun who was a Soron’s representative writer in 19th century and studied a significance of his writing on history of literary. As a result, there are three dominant features as follows. At first, Lee Sam-hyun had an active relationship and shared the trend of latest literature with the prominent writers in 19th century Seoul. His artistic and urban works were expected to make a large contribution to restore the real Seoul literary world in 19thcentury. Secondly, Lee Sam-hyun served as a provincial governor in the northern area for a long time. In 1862, during the farmers’ uprising, he carried out a special mission to calm down the dissatisfaction and anger of the people. Thus, He was well aware of the miseries of the people and the serious crisis of Joseon society at that time so that he expressed such contents in his literature, which could contribute to study how 19thcentury Classical Chinese literature described society aspect of the times. Thirdly, Lee Sam-hyun reflected deeply on what he had done or had not done as a member of the ruling class when the social system was in crisis and wrote those thoughts in his writing. Although it did not lead to develop new ideas, trials to raise the question of the social system and to answer the question were enough to worth to evaluate his work as a valuable achievement of Classical Chinese literature in the 19th century.