PART I: POWERS: What I say goes
PART II: PROPHECIES: Earth, breath, frenzy: the Delphic Oracle
Origen, Eustathius, and the Witch of Endor
PART III: POSSESSIONS: Hoc est corpus
The exorcism of John Darrell
O, that 'Oh' is the Devill: Glover and Harsnett
PART IV: PRODIGIES: Miracles and mutilations
Speaking parts: Diderot and Les Bijoux indiscrets
The Abbe and the Ventriloque
The dictates of phrenzy: Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland
PART V: POLYPHONICS: Ubiquitarical
At home and abroad: Alexandre and Mr. Matthews
Phenomena in the philosophy of sound: Mr. Love
PART VI: PROSTHETICS: Vocal reinforcement
Talking heads, automation ears
A gramophone in every grave
PART VII: NO TIME LIKE THE PRESENT: No time life the present.
