Third Year Undergraduate Conference in the Renaissance and Eighteenth Century

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.”

2.50 p.m 18^th Century

• 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"