Description: Scholars from architecture, philosophy, law, and literary and cultural criticism provide an overview of the most recent and innovative work being done in childhood studies. Together, they argue for rethinking the academic seating arrangement in a way that acknowledges the centrality of childhood to the work of the humanities.
Brief description: JAMES MARTEN is professor of history at Marquette University. He is the author, editor, or coeditor of several books, including America's Corporal: James Tanner in War and Peace (Georgia); Sing Not War: The Lives of Union and Confederate Veterans in Gilded Age America; Civil War America: Voices from the Home Front; and The Children's Civil War.
Review Quotes:
A welcome addition to the growing field of childhood studies, The Children's Table offers astute and thought-provoking essays addressing such areas of humanistic inquiry as philosophy, law, architecture, American studies, and children's literature.
--Beverly Lyon Clark "Kiddie Lit: The Cultural Construction of Children's Literature in America"