Robert McParland

Robert McParland's newest book is Cultural Memory, Consciousness, and the Modernist Novel. Also available is The People We Meet in Stories: Literary Characters of the 1950s. Discover it at your local library, at Rowman and Littlefield, or on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and other online booksellers.

Short Story "My True Love Sent to Me" in Pomona Valley Review May 2014 Issue

May 10, 2014

It's Christmas in May as the short story "My True Love Sent to Me" appears this month in the Pomona Valley Review.

SINGER-SONGWRITERS OF THE 1970s- 150 PROFILES is available for pre-order on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, McFarland Books, and other online booksellers. It will appear in Summer 2022.

New Book: Singer-Songwriters of the 1970s available this Summer 2022.

Singer-Songwriters of the 1970s (Now Available for Pre-Order) is expected in Summer 2022.

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