신소설과 철도의 표상 : 이인직과 이해조의 소설을 중심으로

Abstract

This paper is a study on the representation of railroad shown in 'Sinsosoel'. The subjects of the study include Lee In-Jik's novels such as Hyul-eui-nu(Tears of Blood), the sequel to Hyul-eui-nu, Kwi-eui-seong(The Sound of Ghost), and Eun-se-gye(The World of Silver) and Lee Hae-Jo's Ko-mok-wha(The flower of Old Tree), Bin-sang-seol(Hair on Snow), and Mo-ran-byeong(Peony Porcelain Bottle). Railroad is generally understood as a representation of modern times, however, much attention is paid to the traffic-communication networks which the railroads laid in this paper. Railroads did merely not belong to the products of modern civilization, but did the key role to make the traffic-communication networks combining with steamers, posts, and telegraphic communications. I intended to investigate how the traffic-communication networks formed by railroads are represented in the above mentioned novels. With that purpose, I found out these: Hyul-eui-nu is a literay work that demonstrates how the traffic-communication networks shaped the spatial recognition of the globe anew. Kwi-eui-seong is seemly a novel dealing with the tragedy of concubinage or domestic tragedy, and is supposedly founded on the integrated railroad-post-telegraphic communication networks besides. And by investigating into Bin-sang-seol, the process and aspects of which GMT(Greenwich Mean Time) has been socially institutionalized was sought. In addition, through Eun-se-gye, the railroad is considered as a medium which paved the spectrum extending from the premodern to the modern times. Finally, I discovered that the adjunct areas of railroad station in Chosun was represented as colonized space in Ko-mok-wha and Mo-ran-byeong, and seized the appearance of the anonymous public committing the crimes or reading books on the train and neighboring stations. Thus, the railroad networks was, so to speak, a practical evidence assigning 'Sinsosoel' with the simultaneousness. On the contrary, 'Sinsosoel' was the symbolically generalized media of the railroad.