Download or read book Convention, 1500-1750 written by Lawrence Manley and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major reinterpretation of the development of European literary theory, this wide-ranging study offers a new approach to ways of thinking about man's work in general. This book is a history of the idea of convention, the roles it played in the formative stages of English and Continental literary theory and in the development of modern thought.