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Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly, Volume 21, Issue 2, Fall 1987, p. 79 ANNOUNCEMENT OF PUBLICATION WILLIAM BLAKE AND FELPHAM SERIES Visitors to Felpham and environs will be interested in Alaska Pacific University announces a new book series, the brief but attractive booklet by Norah Owens, W il Alaska Pacific Studies in Interdisciplinarity, unde r th e liam Blake and Felpham (1800-1803), in which “when general editorship of Shirley Paolini. The series focuses ever possible, the focus shifts from Blake to his n eig h on literature and the other arts and will consider m o n o borhood, the lively people among whom he lived and graphs and book-length manuscripts that examine the moved.” It is published by the Bognor Regis Local H is interrelationships between literature and the visual arts, tory Society (Park Lodge, High School, Bognor Regis, music, or film. Comparative studies emphasizing new West Sussex P021 1HW) and costs £1.60. methods of treating critical or theoretical problem s b e tween disciplines will be given preference. Studies o f WILLIAM BLAKE AND FELPHAM 1800-1803 other disciplines in the humanities engaged in an in te r disciplinary dialogue will also be considered. Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., of New York and Bern will publish th e series. Please send inquiries, including an abstract and a curriculum vitae, to Shirley Paolini, Editor, Alaska Pacific Studies in Interdisciplinarity, Alaska Pacific U n i versity, 4101 University Drive, Anchorage AL 99508.

1986-1987 CLIFFORD PRIZE

The James L. Clifford Prize will award $300 to the best nominated article, an outstanding study of some aspect of eighteenth-century culture, interesting to any eigh teenth-century specialist, regardless of discipline. Rules: • The article should not be longer than 7500 words. • The article must have appeared in print in a journal, festschrift, or other serial publication between July 1986 and June 1987. • The article may be nominated by a member of the Society, or by its author. • Nominations must be accompanied by an offprint or copy of the arti cle, postmarked by 1 February 1988, and sent to the ASECS Office. • The winning author must be a member of the Society at the time of the award. Send nomin a tions or inquiries to ASECS, R. G. Peterson, Executive By Norah Owens Published by Secretary, St. Olaf College, Northfield MN 55057 or call BOGNOR REGIS LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETY 507/663-3488. Parkl.odge High Street Bognor Kcgis West Sussex P() 2 l 1 H W