THOMAS HARDY AND HIS MEN.

The article presents a discussion on English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy, adapted from the London Lecture at Birkbeck College in November 2019. Topics covered include how he channelled his mental energies into portraying exceptional male characters, such as Michael Henchard and Diggory Venn, the physical attributes of the alpha-male as portrayed in Victorian journals, novels and magazines, and how Hardy portrayed martial masculinity in his novels.