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The article investigates the production of anonymous texts in early modern England, focusing on the period when the printing industry has been emerging. It explores the characteristics and functions of anonymity in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, particularly in relation to street literature. It further includes analyzing broadsheets, pamphlets, and other ephemeral printed materials.

The essay discusses broadside ballads, considering how they represent changes in English early modern popular culture due to their inexpensive production costs, their wide distribution, and the various ways they were transmitted to the public. It focuses particularly on the sixteenth century flyting, or controversial printed debate, regarding decorum held principally between authors Thomas Camel and Thomas Churchyard which appeared in broadside ballads in 16th century England.

This article discusses the concept and significance of flash romanticism for romantic writers which is associated in the currency of urban knowledge in "Tom & Jerry." It notes that the dictionaries of cant and popular street literature are best records of the everyday language of Romantic-era in London, England. It explores the perspectives of several Romantic-era rhetoricians, which include Janet Sorensen, George Campbell and Gary Dyer, regarding the concept of flash.