Keeper's Travels in Search of His Master
Keeper's Travels in Search of His Master is a children's novel written in 1798 by Edward Augustus Kendall, and reprinted throughout the nineteenth century.
It is a work of romanticism which illustrates the change in the representation of animals in literature, from the fabulous, the allegorical and the satirical to the naturalistic and the empathetic. By employing new narrative techniques for representing thought in fiction, Kendall pioneered writers' attempts to imagine and describe the experiences of animals, becoming an early example of xenofiction. In Keeper's Travels, the main character, Keeper, is given a speaking voice.