Date:    Mon, 16 Feb 1998 14:23:15 -0500
<br>From:    Larry Rosenwald  LROSENWALD[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]WELLESLEY.EDU 
<br>Subject: civil disobedience
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<br>        Hi - in the Princeton edition of Thoreau's Reform Papers, Wendell
<br>Glick, the editor, claims that the phrase "civil disobedience" is used for
<br>the first time as the later title of Thoreau's famous essay.  (Glick makes
<br>this claim in passing - what he's interested in figuring out is whether the
<br>title is likely to have been Thoreau's own, given that the essay wasn't
<br>published under this title till after Thoreau's death.)  Is this true?  The
<br>essay was published under this title in 1866.
<br>        The reason I'm interested, by the way, is this - I'm writing an
<br>essay about Thoreau's essay, and if the title "civil disobedience" was a
<br>new coinage, that fact would be important to me in thinking about how the
<br>title was understood by its contemporary readers.
<br>        If there's a reference book that answers this question, please
<br>forgive my ignorance and just send me there.
<br>        Best, Larry Rosenwald, Wellesley College
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