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Introduction. Signing on / Debra Rae Cohen, Michael Coyle, and Jane Lewty

Medium and metaphor. Inventing the radio cosmopolitan: vernacular modernism at a standstill / Aaron Jaffe

Wireless ego: the pulp physics of psychoanalysis / Jeffrey Sconce

Marinetti, Marconista: the futurist manifestos and the emergence of wireless writing / Timothy C. Campbell

"Masters of sacred ceremonies": Welles, Corwin, and a radiogenic modernist literature / Martin Spinelli

Flying solo: the charms of the radio body / David Jenemann

Pressures and intrusions. Gertrude Stein and the radio / Sarah Wilson

The Voice of America in Richard Wright's Lawd today! / Jonah Willihnganz

Annexing the oracular voice: form, ideology and the BBC / Debra Rae Cohen

Desmond MacCarthy, Bloomsbury, and the aestheticist ethics of broadcasting / Todd Avery

"We speak to India": T. S. Eliot's wartime broadcasts and the frontiers of culture / Michael Coyle

Negotiations, transactions, translations. "What they had heard said written": Joyce, Pound and the cross-correspondence of radio / Jane Lewty

"Speech without practical locale": radio and Lorine Niedecker's aurality / Brook Houglum

Materializing Millay: the 1930s radio broadcasts / Lesley Wheeler

Updating Baudelaire for the radio age: the refractive poetics of "The pleasures of merely circulating" / J. Stan Barrett

I switch off: Beckett and the ideals of radio / Steven Connor.

Radio plays > History and criticism.

Radio broadcasting > History > 20th century.