Introduction / Dana Arnold -- 1. The Italian Renaissance Villa: The Reconciliation of Nature and Artifice / Deborah Howard -- 2. Villa Views and the Uninvited Audience / Julius Bryant -- 3. Jane Austen's Aversion to Villas / Philippa Tristram -- 4. John James: An Early Disciple of Inigo Jones / Sally Jeffery -- 5. The Transformation of Lord Burlington: From the Palladio and Jones of his Time to the Modern Vitruvius / John Harris -- 6. Poor Palladian or Not? Some Alternative Sources for the Early Georgian Villa in Ireland / Sean O'Reilly -- 7. 'Heretical and Presumptuous': British Architects Visiting Palladio's Villa in the Later Georgian Period / Frank Salmon -- 8. Villa Variants / Alistair Rowan -- 9. Soane's Concept of the Villa / David Watkin -- 10. A Family Affair: Decimus Burton's Designs for the Regent's Park Villas / Dana Arnold -- 11. The Marine Villa / Lindsay Boynton -- 12. The Villas of Scotland's Western Seaboard / Michael Davis
13. The Edinburgh Villa Revisited: Function not Form / Ian Gow
Notes
Based on papers given at a conference organized jointly by the Georgian Group and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art held on 17-18 February 1995