id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt xk81jh36p26 Magdalena Nerio Morally Speaking: Anglo-American Women's Life Writing and the Literature of Social Concern, 1844-1877 2014 .txt text/plain 856 22 18 The nonfiction of these women also exhibits formal concerns relating to the limitations of the prophetic voice and the difficulty of sustaining the aspiration toward critical objectivity while elaborating a moral rhetoric of rights sensitive to the plight of women and other marginalized, or disenfranchised Victorian social groups. In chapter three, 'Man (and woman too) has a soul to unfold: Florence Nightingale's Suggestions for Thought,' I read Nightingale's sprawling religious manuscript (privately printed in 1860) largely as a failed experiment within existing modes of self-expression: namely, with sage discourse, religious rhetoric, the novel, and literary criticism. cache/xk81jh36p26.txt txt/xk81jh36p26.txt