What can “Sinful Sally” teach us about moral attitudes in the 18th century?
Jessica Steinberg, The 2015 recipient of the McMaster-ASECS fellowship will explore this question and more on this week’s episode of Tapestry airing on CBC Radio 1.
Steinberg recently spent a month in the McMaster’s William Ready Division of Archives and Research Collections studying “The gamester: to which is added, The story of sinful Sally, told by herself” and other texts from McMaster’s renowned 18th century collections.
- Jessica Steinberg recently spent a month researching sin and vice in the 18th century in McMaster's William Ready Division of Archives and Research Collections.
Steinberg’s research is focused on how immorality and sin were defined and controlled in 18th century London and how religious language associated with the seven deadly sins and the ten commandments was used to frame ideas around what she calls, “moral failure.”
Read full Daily News story on Steinberg’s work.
Catch Steinberg's interview:
CBC Radio 1
- Sunday November 1 @ 2:00 p.m. ET, AT, CT; 2:30 NT; 3:00 PT; 4:00 MT.
- Thursday November 5 @ 3:00 p.m. (in some markets only)
SiriusXM (Channel 169)
- Sunday November 1 @ 2:00 p.m. ET
- Monday November 2 @ 3:00 a.m. ET
- Tuesday November 3 @at 7:00 a.m.
- Thursday November 5 @ at 3:00 p.m.
*The McMaster-ASECS fellowship is a month-long program administered annually by McMaster University Library and funded by McMaster’s Faculty of Humanities and the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (ASECS).
