Fields: the English republic, 17th-cent. literature & history, early-modern Britain
Publications
Books:
/Representative of the People? Voters and
Voting in England under the
Early Stuarts (Cambridge
UP, 1975)
/Authority and Conflict: England 1603-1658
(Arnold, London, & Harvard UP,
Cambridge MA, 1986)
/England in Conflict 1603-1660: Kingdom,
Community, Commonwealth
(Arnold, London, & Oxford UP, New York,
1999)
/(Co-editor) Writing and Political Engagement
in 17th Century England
(Cambridge UP, 2000)
Selected essays
/"The Privy Council and Problems of Enforcement
in the 1620s," Jnl.Brit.
Studs. 1978
/"Court, Country, and Politics before 1629,"
in K. Sharpe, ed., Faction
and Parliament, (Oxford,
1978)
/Co- author, "Rhetoric and Disguise: Political
Language and Political
Argument in Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel,"
JBS 1981
/"Revisionism Revised: The Place of Principle,"
Past
and Present 1981
/"That Sober Liberty: Marvell's Cromwell in
1654," in J. Wallace, ed.,
The Golden and the Brazen World (Berkeley,
1985)
/"Concord and Discord in Richard Cromwell's
House of Commons,"
Eng.Hist.Rev. 1988 /
/"Voting in Hertford, 1679-1721," Computing
in History Yearbook, 1989
/"The Lord Protector," in J. Morrill, ed.,
Oliver
Cromwell and the English
Revolution (London,
1990)
/"The Political Context of Literature in the
1650s," Seventeenth Century, 1990
/"Liberty, Revolution and Beyond," in J. H.
Hexter, ed., Parliament and
Liberty from Reign of
Elizabeth to the English Civil War (Stanford, 1991)
/"The Failure of Godly Rule in the English
Republic," Past and Present, 1991
/Co- author, "High Summer at Nunappleton,
1651: Andrew Marvell and
Lord Fairfax's Occasions," Hist.Jnl.,
1993
/"The rupturing of the Cromwellian Alliance"
Eng.Hist.Rev.,
1993
/'Early Modern Britain,' AHA Guide to Historical
Literature (1994)
/'The English Republic and the Meaning of
Britain,' Jnl.Mod.Hist. 1994
(reprinted in B. Bradshaw & J. Morrill,
eds. The British Problem c.1534-1707
(Basingstoke, 1996)
/'Milton and the Drama of Justice,' in D.
Bevington, D. Smith and R. Strier,
eds., The Theatrical City (Cambridge,
1995)
/'Locating the 1650s in England's 17th Century,'
History
1996
/'Samuel Parker, Andrew Marvell and Political
Culture, 1667-1673,' in D. Hirst
and R. Strier, eds.,Writing and Political
Engagement in 17th Century England
(Cambridge, 2000)
/(Co-author) 'Andrew Marvell and the Toils
of Patriarchy: Fatherhood, Longing
and the Body Politic,' ELH 1999
/Occasional reviewer for New York Times,
TLS, London Review of Books, etc.
In progress /
The people's good: the republican years, 1649-1660 / 'Literature
and national identity 1640-1660'/ Andrew Marvell/
Interest theory and conscience
Course page, Fall 2000:
Early Modern England:
www.artsci.wustl.edu/~dmhirst/emengland/early_england.htm
Career outline:
/Cambridge University BA 1969, PhD 1974
/Fellow, Trinity Hall, Cambridge 1971-75;
Director of Studies in History
1974-75 / Assistant professor to professor,
Washington University 1975-
/Chair, History Dept., Washington University,
1998-
/ Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
/National Endowment for the Humanities senior
fellow, Folger Library 1979
/Guggenheim fellow 1981-82 / Visiting senior
research fellow, Gonville and
Caius College, Cambridge 1981-82/ Clark Lecturer,
University of California,
Los Angeles 1983/ Co-director, Folger Institute
seminar 1991
/Editor, early-modern Britain, AHA Guide
to Historical Literature
/Associate editor, 1649-69 section, New
Dictionary of National Biography