| Sumario: | Let me begin by expressing gratitude to the editors of I Victorian Studies i for dedicating this review forum to I Extraction Ecologies and the Literature of the Long Exhaustion i (2021) and for the invitation to reflect on my project in response to and in dialogue with these three reviews. I sympathize, too, with Luciano's concerns about "period-based scholarship" at a moment when the academic job market seems to be asking more junior scholars to be generalists, and when shrinking humanities faculties at many universities mean that we are all covering more parts of the curriculum. I see the timeline of my book, as explained in my introduction, as determined by energy regimes rather than traditional nation-period designations: it begins with the decisive shift to coal-powered steam in 1830s industry and ends with the dawn of the nuclear era in the late 1930s. First, while she is generally sympathetic with my methodology of "heterotemporal historicism", as I term it in the book, she believes it does not go far enough, and she wonders why the book remains tethered to traditional nation/period divides (Miller 23).
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