Crews, Frederick C(ampbell)

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CREWS, Frederick C(ampbell)

CREWS, Frederick C(ampbell). American, b. 1933. Genres: Literary criticism and history, Psychology. Career: Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, fellow, 1965-66; University of California, Berkeley, instructor, 1958-60, assistant professor, 1960-63, associate professor, 1963-66, professor, 1966-94 professor emeritus of English, 1994-. Publications: The Tragedy of Manners: Moral Drama in the Later Novels of Henry James, 1957; E.M. Forster: The Perils of Humanism, 1962; The Pooh Perplex: A Freshman Casebook (parodies), 1963; The Sins of the Fathers: Hawthorne's Psychological Themes, 1966; The Patch Commission (satire), 1968; The Random House Handbook, 1974, 6th ed., 1992; Out of My System: Psychoanalysis, Ideology, and Critical Method, 1975; (with S. Schor) The Borzoi Handbook for Writers, 1985, 3rd ed., 1993; (with S. Schor and M. Hennessy) Skeptical Engagements, 1986; The Critics Bear It Away: American Fiction and the Academy, 1992; (with others) The Memory Wars: Freud's Legacy in Dispute, 1995; Postmodern Pooh (satire), 2001. EDITOR: Great Short Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1967; (with O. Schell) Starting Over: A College Reader, 1970; Psychoanalysis and Literary Process, 1970; The Random House Reader, 1981; Unauthorized Freud: Doubters Confront a Legend, 1998. Address: 636 Vincente Ave, Berkeley, CA 94707, U.S.A. Online address: [email protected]