Carol Singley: 2 books
The Children's Table
Childhood Studies and the Humanities
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Like the occupants of the children's table at a family dinner, scholars working in childhood studies can seem sidelined from the "adult" labor of humanities scholarship. The Children's Table brings together scholars from architecture, philosophy, law, and literary and cultural criticism to provide...
Adopting America
Childhood, Kinship, and National Identity in Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
American literature abounds with orphans who experience adoption or placements that resemble adoption. These stories do more than recount adventures of children living away from home. They tell an American story of family and national identity. In narratives from the seventeenth to the early twentieth...