Labouring Feeling: Harry Holland's Political Emotions

Abstract

Reading Harry Holland’s literary works as an integral part of his political project and vision, this essay argues that greater attention be paid to the dissident, radical and revolutionary socialist currents shaping Labour’s thought world in the pre-1935 period. Holland’s socialist project, and its ambitions to shape new kinds of political subjects, had, I suggest, a wider resonance and is of greater contemporary interest than most historians have allowed. His poetry and literary works need restored to scholarly and political attention.