'offers a new interpretation of the Adam brothers as revolutionary students and masters of Enlightenment thought in the field of architecture ... This work is particularly valuable for those interested in philosophical and aesthetic theory during the second half of the eighteenth century.' Eighteenth-Century Scotland 'performs a useful service in explaining the intellectual and cultural context in which the Adam brothers moved' English Historical Review

• prefatory_note Prefatory Note; Introduction; Chapter 1 Men of Learning; Chapter 2 Novelty and Variety: An Enlightenment Vision; Chapter 3 ‘Movement’: The Picturesque in Architecture; Chapter 4 Civic Improvement: Edinburgh in the Enlightenment; closing_remarks Closing Remarks;

'offers a new interpretation of the Adam brothers as revolutionary students and masters of Enlightenment thought in the field of architecture ... This work is particularly valuable for those interested in philosophical and aesthetic theory during the second half of the eighteenth century.' Eighteenth-Century Scotland 'performs a useful service in explaining the intellectual and cultural context in which the Adam brothers moved' English Historical Review

• prefatory_note Prefatory Note; Introduction; Chapter 1 Men of Learning; Chapter 2 Novelty and Variety: An Enlightenment Vision; Chapter 3 ‘Movement’: The Picturesque in Architecture; Chapter 4 Civic Improvement: Edinburgh in the Enlightenment; closing_remarks Closing Remarks;