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An Outline of American Literatureby Kathryn VanSpanckerenglossary 1Abolitionism-Active movement to end slavery in the U.S. North before the Civil War in the 1860s. 2Allusion-An implied or indirect reference in a literary text to another text. 3Beatnik-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). 4BostonBrahmins-Influential and respected 19th-centuryNew England writers who maintained the genteel traditionof upper- clas