Includes bibliographical references and index.

On Death of a salesman / Brenda Murphy -- Biography of Arthur Miller / Carl Rollyson -- The Paris review perspective / Elizabeth Gumport -- "The jungle is dark and full of diamonds" : natural value and the logic of naturalism in Death of a salesman / Jon Dietrick -- Salesman and the 1930s theatres of social protest / Joshua E. Polster -- King Lear, King Oedipus, and Willy Loman : tragic strategies in Death of a Salesman / Neil Heims -- Arthur Miller's Death of a salesman : history of criticism / Amy Sickels -- Focus on Arthur Miller's Death of a salesman : the wrong dreams / Chester E. Eisinger -- Family dreams in Death of a salesman / Irving Jacobson -- Women and the American dream of Death of a salesman / Kay Stanton -- "What's the secret?" : Willy Loman as desiring machine / Granger Babcock -- Shame, guilt, empathy and the search for identity in Arthur Miller's Death of a salesman / Fred Ribkoff -- The ironic Hercules reference in Death of a salesman / Terry W. Thompson -- Masculine and feminine in Death of a salesman / Heather Cook Callow -- The psychological politics of the American dream : Death of a salesman and the case for an existential dialectics / Lois Tyson -- Death of a salesman and the poetics of Arthur Miller / Matthew C. Roudan�e -- "Death of a salesman" / Christopher Bigsby.