Introduction: "A Feeling for History": The Popular Front Novel 2 Chapter One: Realism and Popularity, 38 1. Epic forms and the Crisis of the Novel, 39 2. The Expressionism Debate and the Popular Front, 64 3. Modernity and the Popular, 79 Chapter Two: After the Revolution: Hans Marchwitza, The Kumiaks , 96 1. The Kumiak-Type, 103 2. The Promised Land, 112 3. Passive Resistance, 122 Chapter Three: Place and Plot: Anna Seghers, The Seventh Cross , 139 1. Place and Space in Exile, 148 2.

Heimat or, The Legibility of Everyday Life, 164 3. The No-Man's-Land between the Generations, 178 Chapter Four: Ghostly Solidarities: Eduard Claudius, Green Olives and Bare Mountains, 196 1. Discipline and Defeat, 203 2. The Partisan, 219 3. A Specter Lurks on Europe's Street Corners, 229 Chapter Five: Die deutsche Misère ?: Bertolt Brecht: Mother Courage and her Children , 241 1. The Great Capitulation, 248 2. War Feeds Its Children Better, 264 3. What is a Historic Moment?, 279 Epilogue: The "Immense Window of Change," 292 Bibliography, 306 Common Abbreviations, 327 Notes, 327.