美国文学的名词解释.docVIP

An Outline of American Literatureby Kathryn VanSpanckerenglossary 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-