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Eighteenth-century studies This page brings together the scholarly essays on this site which explore themes in eighteenth-century studies. Links are given below, and are also listed, with my other work, in the research section of this site. Scholarly essays on eighteenth-century studies Architecture & landscape gardening ‘Dresden: the making of a baroque city’ (2005) Read>> [includes illustrations] ‘The distinctiveness of Bohemian baroque: a study in the architecture of Central Europe, c.1680-c.1720’ (2005) Read>> [includes illustrations] ‘Neoclassicism in Britain: the Adam brothers and “Athenian” Stuart’ (2005) Read>> ‘William Shenstone and the Leasowes: the English Landscape Garden in Transition, c.1740-1763’ (1994, revised 2006) Read>> Literature ‘Taste, sense and vanity: Alexander Pope’s “Epistle to Burlington”’ (2007) Read>> Political philosophy ‘Rousseau and inequality: liberty and inequality in the works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’ (2005) Read>> ‘Burke and revolution: reform, revolution and constitutional conservatism in the thought of Edmund Burke’ (2005) Read>> Illustration: portrait of Robert Adam, c. 1770-4, attributed to George Willison. National Portrait Gallery, London. [Public domain image: source.] © greycat.org