The Transcriptionist: A Novel.
- Author / Editor
- Rowland, Amy.
The Transcriptionist: A Novel.
- Published
- Chapel Hill, N. C.: Algonquin, 2014.
- Physical Description
- 246 pp.
- Description
- A novel about a modern-day transcriptionist who works for a New York newspaper. Obsessed by a recent suicide, her distrust of truth and language grows. Includes recurrent references to Chaucer and his works, most extensively in Chapter 6, "Chaucer's Scrivener Revealed," concerning a scholarly discovery made by the suicide victim's sister.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Manuscripts and Textual Studies