본 논문은 명대의 역적 당새아가 청대 소설 속에서 돌연 女仙이자, 나라를 구하는 영웅의 형상으로 변신한 데 주목하고, 그녀가 소설 속에서 극적인 변신을 이루게 된 원인을 고찰하였다. 이를 위해 먼저 실존인물 당새아의 행적 및 그녀에 대한 명대인의 평가를 시기별로 살펴보고, 그런 다음 청대소설 『여선외사』 속 당새아의 형상을 분석하였으며, 마지막으로 당새 아형상의 극적 변신의 이유를 소설의 창작 동기 및 평어를 중심으로 분석하였다. 역적 당새아의 소설 속 변신은 청대 초기의 사회적 배경, 즉 왕조 교체로 인해 명대에 발생했던 정난 지변을 재조명할 수 있는 환경이 마련된 것과 밀접한 관련이 있다.

This study is focused on the image of Tang Sai'er, the female protagonist of a novel from the Qing Dynasty. Tang Sai'er is a real person from early Ming Dynasty, and the author, Lu Xiong, recreated her as a protagonist of a novel. A point of interest is that Tang Sai'er was the leader of the rebel forces leading a peasant uprising, under the rule of Emperor Yong Le, based in Shandong Province. People believed that she could perform magic, and called her the 'wicked thief.' Lu Xiong, an author of the Qing Dynasty, used Tang Sai'er as the protagonist of his novel NuXianWaiShi. However, Tang Sai'er in the novel is no longer a rebel. She is a loyal warrior helping Emperor Jian Wen to overthrow the traitor King Yan, who finally kills traitor King Yan after 18 years of massive war and transforms into a female hero leading wars to victory.
It is highly noteworthy that a female was put up as not only a hero leading a large army in an era of feudal dynasty, but a leader of a peasant uprising. The author described a rebel as a loyalist, and let a woman reign over men. This character of Tang Sai'er is an unprecedented character in the history of Chinese literature. Thus, this study casts light upon the dramatic transformation of the image of Tang Sai'er from three angles. First, the historical records of the Ming Dynasty is compared for analysis against the image of Tang Sai'er in the novel. Second, the background of the author's creation of the novel and the world realized in the novel are analyzed. Third, the public response to the image of Tang Sai'er is analyzed through the readers' response after reading the novel. It is thought that through the above three attempts at analysis, it would be possible to unveil the reason that Tang Sai'er, a rebel from the Ming Dynasty, was transformed into a hero in a novel from the Qing Dynasty.

초록
 1. 서론
 2. 명대 요적 당새아
 3. 『여선외사』 속 건괵영웅 당새아
 4. 요적에서 건괵영웅으로의 변신
  1) 당새아에 대한 인식의 변화
  2) ‘反反者不爲反’
  3) 人理의 집행자, 당새아
 5. 결론
 참고문헌
 논문초록

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