Ithaca College

 Professor Gleitman's chapter, "“What a Man”: Performing Masculinity in Arthur Miller’s and Tennessee Williams’ Plays" appears in the collection Arthur Miller for the Twenty-First Century, part of the Springer series, American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. 

The collection begins by exploring Miller in the context of 20th-century American drama. Chapters discuss Miller and Eugene O’Neill, Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, David Mamet, and Sam Shepard, as well as thematic relationships between Miller’s ideas and the explosion of significant women and African American dramatists since the 1970s. Other essays focus more directly on interpretations of Miller’s individual works, not only plays but also essays and fiction, including a discussion of Death of a Salesman in China. The volume concludes by considering Miller and current cultural issues: his work for human rights, his depiction of American ideals of masculinity, and his anticipation of contemporary posthumanism.