18세기 양반여성의 글쓰기의 층위와 그 의미

Abstract

This paper studies characteristic aspects of noble women's writing in the 18th century, focussing on men's documents which were listed in Collections of Korean Traditional Literary Volumes in Chinese Letters. Previously women's writings had been considered very rare because only remaining works of noble women had been mainly studied. As a result, the 18th century were not focussed as the period when women also participated in writing. Actually noble women in the Chosun dynasty were found to actively write from literary works such as poems in Chinese letters, and gasa(歌辭) to other kinds of writings such as letters, autobiographical documents and records of deceased people(行狀). Of course it's true that noble women's writing was not considered natural unlike noble men's writing. Actually women's writings depended a lot upon the economical and cultural background of their families. In this paper I examined how women wrote in their everyday lives focussing on the case of one noble woman's life, and then I studied lots of noble women's writings such as historical documents, autobiographical documents, poems in Chinese letters, gasa, and other formal writings, which had existed not as literary works but as some traces. From this study, I could see that noble women in the 18th century actively participated in writing whether they wrote in Hangeul or Chinese letters, and that the remaining works of noble women were only a small part of their writings.