Frederick Crews

Frederick Crews
Crews in 2005
Born	20 Februar 1933(1933-02-20) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Dee'd	21 Juin 2024(2024-06-21) (aged 91) Oakland, California, U.S.
Eddication	Yale University (BA) Princeton University (PhD)

Frederick Campbell Crews (20 February, 1933 – 21 June, 2024) wis an American essayist and leeterarie ceeitic. Professor o the English at the University o Californie, Berkeley, Crews wis the owthor o thrang buiks, includin The Tragedy of Manners: Moral Drama in the Later Novels of Henry James (1957), E. M. Forster: The Perils of Humanism (1962), and The Sins of the Fathers: Hawthorne's Psychological Themes (1966), a communin o the wark o Nathaniel Hawthorne. He received popular tent fur The Pooh Perplex (1963), a buik o satirical essays parodyin sindrie scuils o literary criticism. Firstlins a proponent o psychoanalytic literary criticism, Crews efter rejeckit psychoanalysis, becomin a creetic o Sigmund Freud and his scientific an ethical staunarts. Crews wis a kenspeckle participant in the "Freud wars" o the 1980s and 1990s, a flyte ower the name, scholarship, an impact on the 20th century o Freud, wha foondit psychoanalysis. In 2017, he furthset Freud: The Making of an Illusion.

Honours an awairds

• Fulbright Lectureship, Turin, Italy, 1961–62
• Essay Prize, Naitional Cooncil on the Airts an Humanities, 1968
• Fell, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, 1965–66
• Guggenheim Fellowship (Literary criticism), 1970
• Distinguished Teaching Award, University of California, Berkeley, 1985
• Election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1991
• Faculty Research Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley, 1991–92
• Editorial Board, "Rethinking Theory" series, Northwestern University Press, 1992–2024
• Nomination for National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction (The Critics Bear It Away), 1992
• PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay (The Critics Bear It Away), 1993
• Berkeley Citation, 1994
• Inclusion in The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2002, ed. Natalie Angier (Houghton Mifflin), 2002
• Fellow, Commission for Scientific Medicine and Mental Health, 2003–2024
• Berkeley Fellow, 2005–2024
• Inclusion in The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2005, ed. Jonathan Weiner (Houghton Mifflin), 2005
• Nominated for National Book Critics Circle Award (Follies of the Wise), 2006

Bibliography

As author

• Crews, FC (1957) [1971 Archon books re-issue]. The Tragedy of Manners: Moral Drama in the Later Novels of Henry James. Yale University Press. ISBN 0-208-01047-5.
• Crews, FC (1962) [2003 Textbook Publishers re-issue]. E. M. Forster: The Perils of Humanism. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-7581-5768-1.
• Crews, FC (2003) [1963]. The Pooh Perplex: A Student Casebook (2003 re-issue). E.P. Dutton/University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-12058-9.
• Crews, FC (1989) [1966]. The Sins of the Fathers: Hawthorne's Psychological Themes. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-06817-3.
• Crews, FC (1968). The Patch Commission. E. P. Dutton.
• Crews, FC (1975). Out of My System: Psychoanalysis, Ideology, and Critical Method. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-501947-4.
• Crews, FC (1991) [1980]. The Random House Handbook. McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0-07-013636-X.
• Crews, FC (1981). The Random House Reader. McGraw-Hill. ISBN 978-0075535973.
• Crews, FC (1986). Skeptical Engagements. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-503950-5.
• Crews, FC (1992). The Critics Bear It Away: American Fiction and the Academy. Random House. ISBN 0-679-40413-9.
• Crews, FC; Schor S; Hennessy M (1993). The Borzoi Handbook for Writers (3rd ed.). McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0-07-911401-6.
• Crews, FC (1995). The Memory Wars: Freud's Legacy in Dispute. The New York Review of Books. ISBN 0-940322-04-8.
• Crews, FC (2001). Postmodern Pooh. North Point Press. ISBN 0-86547-626-8.
• Crews, FC (2006). Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays. Shoemaker & Hoard. ISBN 1-59376-101-5.
• Crews, FC (2017). Freud: The Making of an Illusion. Metropolitan Books. ISBN 9781627797177.

As editor

• Hawthorne, N. (1962). Crews, FC (ed.). Great Short Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne. New York: Harper & Row. ISBN 978-0060830748.
• Crews, FC (1970). Psychoanalysis and Literary Process. Winthrop Publishers. ISBN 0-13-732362-X.
• Crews, FC; Schell O (1970). Starting Over: A College Reader. Random House.
• Crews, FC; McMichael GL (1997). Anthology of American Literature. Englewood Cliffs, N.J: Prentice Hall. ISBN 0-13-573973-X.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors leet (link)
• Crews, FC (1998). Unauthorized Freud: Doubters Confront a Legend. Viking Press. ISBN 0-670-87221-0.
• Crews, FC; McMichael GL (1998). Concise Anthology of American Literature. Englewood Cliffs, N.J: Prentice Hall. ISBN 0-13-373291-6.

As contributor

• Crane, S. (2007). E. C. Link; D. Pizer (eds.). The Red Badge of Courage (Fourth Edition) (Norton Critical Editions). New York: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0393930757.

External links

• Book reviews by Crews at The New York Review of Books magazine
• Frederick C. Crews at the Open Library