Literature also has sexual characteristics. This is not onlyabout the female characters in literary works, but also about the writing offemale writers. This book addresses the “second sex” in Russian literature,reviews the female characters in works of 19th century Russianwriters such as Karamzin, Pushkin, Dostoyevsky and Leo Tolstoy, and meanwhilegives an analysis of the feminine subjects in the writings of modern Russianfemale writers such as Ulitskaya, Tatyana Tolstaya and Petrushevskaya. Aninterpretation of Russian literature from a gender perspective can deepen ourunderstanding of the concept “Russian literature” and therefore enrich ourknowledge and grasp of Russian literature.This is a National Social Science Fund project and a “985”engineering project of Renmin University of China.
About the Author
Ms. Chen Fang, with a Doctor of Letters degree fromPeking University, is now an associate professor in the Russian Department ofSchool of Foreign Languages, Renmin University of China. Ms. Chen is the authorof monographs such as A Study on ModernRussian Women’s Novel Writing and TheBig Garden of Russian Literature (co-author) and the translator of novelsand academic books such as LiteraryPortraits, Doctor Kukotskoho’sMedical Cases, Number One, or Other Opportunitiesin the Gardens and History ofImmigrant Literature in 20th Century Russia. She has alsopublished more than 20 articles in journals like Foreign Literature Review, WorldLiterature, Foreign Literature and Translations, and has translateda total of more than 500, 000 words.
