Convention 1500-1750 by Lawrence Manley

Hardcover. Condition: Like-New. Dust Jacket: Like-New. 1980. Harvard University Press. 1st Edition. Stock Image.

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.