Third Year Undergraduate Conference in the Renaissance and Eighteenth Century
Tuesday 23 May 2017, 2.00PM to 5.00pm
Conference Programme
2.00 p.m Renaissance
- Caitlin Burge: Fairies and the Reformation
- Sophie Allin: Renaissance horse-dung
- Lauren Harrison: “It is commonly maintain’d, that the Masculine gender is more worthy than the Feminine, though perhaps when men have need of us they will yield the priority to us.”
- Eleanor Higginson: “It is true, She met with unexpected Success in all her wicked Courses”: Daniel Defoe’s Roxana the anti-heroine and the rise of the amoral novel
- Lucy Gilder: ‘Our liaison is to be named to nobody’: The Language of Lesbianism in Eighteenth Century Sentimental Culture
- Freyja Mccreery: Sense, Sensibility and Society: The Problem of Proof
3.35 p.m Coffee
3.50 p.m Renaissance
- Thomas Mortimer: Hamlet through the Lens of Early-Modern Neurology
- Isobel Cook: Seeing, Knowing, Believing: Vision and Visions in Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus
- Alicia Barnes: "'It is finished': The Death and Subversion of Christopher Marlowe's Faustus"
Contact Kevin Killeen or Jim Watt
Location: Treehouse, Berrick Saul Building, University of York Heslington West Campus