@inbook {RN11712,
	title = {Sublimity by fiat: New Light on the English Longinus},
	booktitle = {The Places of Early Modern Criticism},
	year = {2021},
	pages = {191-205},
	publisher = {Oxford University Press},
	organization = {Oxford University Press},
	type = {Book Section},
	address = {Oxford},
	abstract = {Longinus{\textquoteright}s On the Sublime is thought to have been ushered onto the English literary scene by Nicolas Boileau{\textquoteright}s Trait{\'e} du Sublime (1674). The search for antecedents to Boileau has yielded some scattered references in Rainolds, Chapman, Junius, Milton, and a few rhetorical textbooks, but nothing that seems to indicate a school of thought or even particular enthusiasm. The reception of Langbaine{\textquoteright}s Latin translation of 1636 hardly predicts the vast literary influence the treatise would wield by the end of the century. A more promising readership may, however, be suggested by a string of citations in seventeenth-century sermons. In Longinus{\textquoteright}s brief quotation from Genesis and praise of Moses{\textquoteright}s oratory, clergymen found literary and rhetorical roots for their explorations of divine sublimity. Developing alongside Longinus{\textquoteright}s reception in Christian rhetorics, these citations offer an alternative route for the early association of On the Sublime with Milton{\textquoteright}s Christian epic, and its eventual entry into the literary mainstream.},
	doi = {10.1093/oso/9780198834687.003.0013},
	url = {http://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198834687.003.0013},
	author = {Lazarus, Micha},
	editor = {Alexander, Gavin and Gilby, Emma and Marr, Alexander}
}
