“Visions of British Culture performs an inestimable service in bridging the classic Reformation historiography of Protestant acculturation and more literary-minded works like those of Raymond Williams and Stephen Prickett, which examine the genesis of the Victorian ideal of culture. And yet, it is a deeply original work, which restores centuries of learned writing about folk culture – in ethnography, natural history, homiletics, poetry, and social critique – to its religious context.” (Brent S. Sirota, Church History, Vol. 93 (1), March, 2024)
