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An essay is presented that examines the unconventional double-coded context in "The Blue Carbuncle," by Arthur Conan Doyle. The 1982 detective story featuring the character Sherlock Holmes appeared in the "Strand Magazines" amidst popularity of mass-produced works. It discusses Holmes' character and how it illustrates the contrasting form between literary and popular fiction, the unique and mass produced and the true artist, and the commercial writer.

An essay is presented on the development of cookbook genre. It discusses the graphics and textual features of a selection of English and Australian cookbooks in order to evaluate their effect on the functioning of the genre. It evaluates the historical relationship of the form and function of cookbooks. It explores the textual evolution of cookbook to illustrate how graphic features underwrote agenda and aims of the texts while interacting with the discourses of gender, class, and nationalism.