한말∼1910년대 문학을 통한 오리슨 스웨트 마든의 성공주의 수용

Abstract

This study examines the acceptance of Orison Sweat Marden’s theory of success through literature such as business novels, ambition novels, and biography of businessmen in the late of Great Han Empire and 1910s. Marden is famous for being a follower of Samuel Smiles’ self-help. The content of Marden’s theory of success is to make achievements that is based on the spirit of self-help in the business world. Around the 1900s, literary genres such as business novels, ambition novels, and biography of businessmen were initiated or established in the magazines of 『Business of Japan』 and 『Success』. business novels, ambition novels, and biography of businessmen were used as a means of disseminating business success, In Japan in the 1900s. In short, This study paid attention to the translation or publication of the business novels 『Songroegum』 and 『Burangeukrimjeon』, ambition novels 『Gwisang’s Dream』 and 『300 million won』, a biography of a businessman 『The Great King of Steel』 in the late of Great Han Empire and 1910s. Thus, it was revealed that Marden’s theory of success was accepted for the first time in Korea through such literature.