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# Frederick Crews

(1933–2024)   Literary Critic

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Frederick Crews was a literary critic.

## Quick Facts About Frederick Crews

Born February 20, 1933

Died June 21, 2024

Profession Literary Critic

## About Frederick Crews

American literary critic and writer... \| Frederick Campbell Crews was an American essayist and literary critic. Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, Crews was the author of numerous books, including The Tragedy of Manners: Moral Drama in the Later Novels of Henry James (1957), E. M. Forster: The Perils of Humanis

##  Quotes by Frederick Crews

> [Psychoanalysis will fade away just as mesmerism and phrenology did, and for the same reason - its exploded pretensions will deprive it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-crews/psychoanalysis-will-fade-away-just-as-mesmerism-and-phrenology-did/)

[Frederick Crews](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-crews/)

[Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/freud/)

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> ["Little magazines" are, for the most part, the mayflies of the literary world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-crews/little-magazines-are-for-the-most-part-the-mayflies-of-the-literary/)

[Frederick Crews](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-crews/)

[Literature](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/literature/)

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> [Ephemerality is the little magazine's generic fate; by promptly dying it gives proof that it remained loyal to its first program.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-crews/ephemerality-is-the-little-magazine-s-generic-fate-by-promptly-dying/)

[Frederick Crews](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-crews/)

[Dying](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dying/)

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> [The recovery movementis not primarily addressed to people who always knew about their sexual victimization. Its main intendedaudience is women who aren't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-crews/the-recovery-movementis-not-primarily-addressed-to-people-who-always/)

[Frederick Crews](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-crews/)

[Abuse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/abuse/)

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