美国文学英文版本9.docVIP

美国文学英文版本9 Glossary Abolitionism：Active movement to end slavery in the U.S. North before the Civil War in the 1860s. Allusion：An implied or indirect reference in a literary text to another text. Beatnik：Artistic and literary rebellion against established society of the 1950s and early 1960s, associated with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and others. Beat suggests holiness (beatification) and suffering (beaten down). Boston Brahmins：Influential and respected 19th-century New England writers who maintained the genteel traditionof upper- class values. Calvinism：Strict theological doct