In this Issue

Table of Contents

“[A]s lightly as two thoughts”: Motion, Materialism, and Cavendish’s Blazing World

Anne M. Thell
pp. 1-33
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/con.2015.0001
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Toward a Minor Science Fiction: Literature, Science, and the Shock of the Biophysical

Tom Idema
pp. 35-59
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/con.2015.0003
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Present Signs, Dead Things: Indexical Authenticity and Taxidermy’s Nonabsent Animal

Helen Gregory, Anthony Purdy
pp. 61-92
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/con.2015.0004
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Modernism, Time Machines, and the Defamiliarization of Time

Charles M. Tung
pp. 93-121
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/con.2015.0005
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The Practice of Misuse: Rugged Consumerism in Contemporary American Culture by Raymond Malewitz (review)

Rebecca Falkoff
pp. 123-125
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/con.2015.0006
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Universes without Us: Posthuman Cosmologies in American Literature by Matthew A. Taylor (review)

Sam Schwartz
pp. 125-127
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/con.2015.0007
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Breathing Race into the Machine: The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics by Lundy Braun (review)

Lindsey Andrews
pp. 127-130
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/con.2015.0000
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Contributors

pp. 131-132
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/con.2015.0002
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