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초록

The purpose of this study is to critically reconsider the achievements of previous studies on “Geumsam’s Blood” and “Daechunbu”. The premise is an understanding of the topography and orientation of the historical novel world in the newspaper's history at the time of creation, in addition to related information overlooked in previous studies, namely Park Jong-hwa’s view of historical novels and his creative background at the time of the creation of the two works. Through this, it was intended to secure an empirical basis to partially correct over-evaluation or misreading of the period. It was intended to confirm the literary and historical coordinates of “Geumsam’s Blood” and “Daechunbu” as a touchstone to gauge the overall achievements of historical novels in the 1930s. “Geumsam’s Blood” and “Daechunbu” led the trend of prosperity of historical novels in newspaper series in the late 1930s. At that time, newspaper journalism during the colonial period advertised the serialization of historical novels as popular reading material that would provide the fun of acquiring and reading historical knowledge at once. These two virtues are emphasized as the special merits of historical novels throughout the colonial period. “Daechunbu” emphasizes the former aspect and “Geumsam’s Blood” corresponds to a work in which the latter characteristic stands out. Since “Geumsam’s Blood” was relatively more responsive to readers than “Daechunbu”, it suggests the public’s expected reading horizon as a consumer of historical novels of the time. Based on this fact, it is reasonable to judge “Geumsam’s Blood” as a text that combines some of the aesthetic completeness and popularity of novels, and the subsequent work “Daechunbu” as a text centered on the delivery of historical knowledge that overlaps feudal loyalist ideology and modern nationalist ideology. “Geumsam’s Blood” and “Daechunbu” are the works of a writer serialized on the same page one after another. These works with different personalities represent the two mainstream of colonial historical novels. This means that the two texts are useful touchstones for observing the landscape of the entire colonial historical fiction world. Here is the need to reconsider the misreading and overvaluation caused by Park Jong-hwa’s “Geumsam’s Blood” and “Daechunbu” as national narratives.

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