Toward the late Joseon Dynasty, the center-local separation becomes clear in many aspects. As Seoul gradually grows into the political and economic center and urbanized extensively, localities couldn't help becoming relatively weaker. In the literatur ...
Toward the late Joseon Dynasty, the center-local separation becomes clear in many aspects. As Seoul gradually grows into the political and economic center and urbanized extensively, localities couldn't help becoming relatively weaker. In the literature as well, this phenomenon clearly stood out. Especially as the Southerners in the Yeung-Nam region had their return routes have been blocked, they stick to the tradition of the Confucian Classics as a means to enhance cohesion, based on this focusing on studying the Confucian Classics, and this tendency to put the literature to the bottom. In contrast, in Seoul, literature starts specializing, being separated from the Confucian Classics, and the innovative trends like Wihang literature spreaded and a variety of changes become evident. There were the classes that led and accelerated these changes at the time, and they were so-called Kyungwhasejok. This study focused on the fact primarily that, Hong Han Ju (1798-1868), the person from Kyunwhasejok who fully experienced various changes and developments of Seoul in 19th century and obtained most updated knowledge information without distinction were appointed as the governor in the Yeung-Nam region dominated by the conservative and closed Southerners. And by catching this fact, it attempted to investigate how he formed and established the literary relationships as the governor from different region and what the reality of literary collegial relationships. The relationships that he had as the appointed governor of Sangju showed the tendency that the political and the literary relationship were approximately differentiated. Furthermore, Sangju functioned as the basis for Southerners of Yeung-Nam with Toegae School forming the mainstream, but also the academies like Heungahm Seowon and the Seosan Seowon who continued to work after the Westerner Noron-faction people coexisted in it, and showed exchangeability and openness compared with other regions. As a result, Hong Han Ju accepted flexibly the circumstances of the region as well as the political and social situation at the time, properly differentiating and demonstrating his own background, political aspiration, and the literary taste, and built the relationships. What was more notable was the aspect of his literary relationships. Especially, Hong Han Ju who was proud of literary artistic governor was not bothered by factions and classes, and expanded the relationships that sought after solely the literary arts with certain writers and Wihang people who made literary achievements. Although it did not reverberate much, it has a significance in that the Wihang people and men of letters with this literary competence existed even in Yeung-Nam that had particularly strong conservatism in the region in those days in the days of change. This can place certain significance from the viewpoint of the trend of country community literature at the end of Joseon that was blocked from the central literary circle and the micro approach about change.