Death of a Salesman (1949): Library Resources

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Search the Library Catalog for the following reference titles that contain material about Death of a Salesman. These titles may be available in other college or public libraries.

• American Diversity, American Identity: The Lives and Works of 145 Writers Who Define the American Experience
• American Writers [vol 3]
• American Writers since 1900
• Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman
  
• Contemporary Dramatists
  
• Contemporary Literary Criticism (CLC) - Contains passages from literary criticism originally published in books and journals
  • [vols 1, 2, 6, 10, 15, 47, 78, 179] - look for Death of a Salesman in the Cumulative Title Index, a separate paperback index that accompanies this multi-volume work
• Critical Companion to Arthur Miller: A Literary Reference to His Life and Works
  
• Survey of Drama [vol 5, 7]
• Cyclopedia of Literary Characters [vol 1]
• Cyclopedia of Literary Places [vol 1]
• Cyclopedia of World Authors [vol 2]
• Death of a Salesman
  
• Drama Criticism [vol 1]
• Drama for Students [vol 1, 3]
• Dramatists and Drama
  
• Great Writers of the English Language - Dramatists
• Literature and Its Times [4]
• Major Modern Dramatists [vol 1]
  
• Masterplots [vol 3]
• McGraw Encyclopedia of World Drama [vols 3]
• Modern American Drama
  
• Modern American Literature [vol 2, 4, 5, 6]
  
• The Oxford Dictionary of Plays
• A Reader's Guide to Modern American Drama
  
• Student Companion to Arthur Milller
• Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (TCLC) - Contains passages from literary criticism originally published in books and journals;
  • [vol 26] - locate the topical essay "The Businessman in American Literature"
  • [vol 62] - locate the topical essay "Jewish-American Fiction"
  • [vol 210] - locate the topical essay "The American Dream in Literature"
• Understanding Death of a Salesman: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents
  

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• Miller, Arthur
  

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