Robert McParland

Bestseller: A Century of America's Favorite Books

America's Favorite bestselling books across more than 100 years are discussed in this widely reviewed book published at the end of 2018.

Selected Works

Literature and Cultural History

Beyond Gatsby: How Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Other Writers Shaped the 1920s

Beyond Gatsby discusses Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and other American writers of the 1920s.

Mark Twain's Audience

Reader response, book history, and American cultural history.

Charles Dickens’s American Audience

This is the first study of Dickens’s American readers and audience for his American readings.Bela Kornitzer Award Winner.

History; Bestselling Books; Literature

Bestseller: A Century of America's Favorite Books

America's favorite books across the past 100 years are discussed in this book.

Cultural History-Literary Criticism-Critical Biography

Native Sons to King's Men: The Literary Landscape of the 1940s

The 1940s, a time of war and a generation's great effort, is discussed in this cultural history through the novels of the era.

History; Literary Criticism

Citizen Steinbeck: Giving Voice to the People

Citizen Steinbeck covers the career and works of American author John Steinbeck.

Music

Science Fiction in Classic Rock

Science fiction and mythology have often been present in the imagery, lyrics, and sound of progressive rock music and in other styles of rock music. This book looks at the work of David Bowie, ELO, Alan Parsons, ELP, Pink Floyd, Blue Oyster Cult, Rush, and other bands.

Music and Literary Modernism

Explores the connections between music and literature.

Film Studies

Film and Literary Modernism

Film and Literary Modernism is a collection of essays about the arts, literary modernism, and film making from 1900 through the 1960s.

Fiction

In the Nick of Time

A collection of short stories.

Non-Fiction

Bloom's How to Write About Joseph Conrad

This study of Conrad’s themes, style, and techniques is for those writing on his works.

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