In single-particle quantum mechanics, particles are replaced by wave-functions -- which are functions from the space of possible particle positions to the complex numbers.It seems that the most 'natural' definition of a quantum field would be as a functional from the space of field configurations to the complex numbers. Reading QFT textbooks, it often seems that this viewpoint is lurking in the background but rarely made explicit. Are there any textbooks(or lecture notes, papers etc.) that spell out as explicitly as possible the connection between this viewpoint and the usual formulation with creation and annihilation operators, feynman diagrams etc?

In single-particle quantum mechanics, particles are replaced by wave-functions -- which are functions from the space of possible particle positions to the complex numbers. It seems that the most 'natural' definition of a quantum field would be as a functional from the space of field configurations to the complex numbers. Reading QFT textbooks, it often seems that this viewpoint is lurking in the background but rarely made explicit. Are there any textbooks  (or lecture notes, papers etc.) that spell out as explicitly as possible the connection between this viewpoint and the usual formulation with creation and annihilation operators, feynman diagrams etc?