憑虛閣 李氏의 『閨閤叢書』에 대한 文獻學的 硏究

The Literary Study on Pinghugak's(憑虛閣) Kyuhapchonseo(『閨閤叢書』)

The purpose of this paper is to describe the composing process in the Pinghugak's(憑 虛閣, 1759~1824) Kyuhapchongseo(『閨閤叢書』) by showing her attitude to the 'Silhak (實學)' confucianism emphasizing a scientific and analytical reflection and tracing the relationship between Seo, Myong-ung's(徐命膺) Kosashinseo(『攷事新書』), Seo, Ho-su's (徐浩修) Haedongnongseo(『海東農書』), Pinghugak's Kyuhapchongseo and Seo, Yu-gu's(徐 有榘) Imwonkyongchechi(『林園經濟志』). Kyuhapchngseo is an archive defining methods of nutrition for family and domestic works. Since in the late Chason dynasty most important role for woman in the noble class was to serve guests and to prepare for the ancient worship, Kyuhapchongseo prescribed the making process of respectively directories and their preservation on the one hand, considered on the sphere of everyday life like house, food, clothes and a decorum on the other hand. We can find fact that Kyuhapchongseo responded flexibly to new rising culture and showed the attitude of taking in a way of new period actively. Above of all, however, the role of woman managing the slaves of her house was emphasized later. In the period that not much women writers were in the society, Pinghugak circulated her work, Kyuhapchoseo produced by her efforts to achieve scholarship and to read various books. She intended to suggest the contents for helping women in domestic works and to enlighten women's self-consciousness. In order to show these characters of Kyuhapchongseo, this paper focuses on a making reconstruaion of Kyuhapchongseo by literary method and on the various version of it which shows how much they keep Kyuhapchongseo's characters and transform them.