Building on the scholarship of Nedra Reynolds, Dale Sullivan, and recent feminist scholars writing on ethos, this article argues that blame is a vehicle that rhetors can use to enhance their ēthē. Specifically, this article shows that blame can modify social mores when used by an ethically strong rhetor who censures another individual with a strong ethos. To make this argument, this article considers the rhetoric of a nineteenth-century French-American Catholic Sister living at the intersection of various worlds, as the article illustrates how she, when challenged by an American bishop, used a rhetoric of blame to further enhance her ethos.

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“无纪律的幻想的任性”：通过流行病用责备来谈判精神的“中间人”

本文基于 Nedra Reynolds、Dale Sullivan 和最近撰写的关于精神的女权主义学者的学术研究，认为责备是修辞者可以用来增强其 ēthē 的工具。具体而言，本文表明，当道德强烈的言辞谴责另一个具有强烈精神的人时，责备可以改变社会习俗。为了提出这个论点，本文考虑了一位生活在不同世界交汇处的 19 世纪法裔美国天主教修女的修辞，因为本文说明了她在受到美国主教挑战时如何使用责备的修辞进一步增强她的精神。