Children's Literature and the Child Flâneur

This essay examines Baudelaire's use of the figure of child in his theorization of the flâneur, and it argues for the possibility of a specifically child flâneur by considering New York children's literature like Enright's The Saturdays, Fitzhugh's Harriet the Spy, Konigsburg's From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, and Hamilton's The Planet of Junior Brown.