After letting the draft sit for a while, slightly traumatized by the hectic process of wrapping it up over the winter, I was pleasantly surprised by my perspective on it now. The argument that I found discouragingly convoluted still reads as a bit messy but also intriguing, particularly in the way it interweaveas deformance and performativity.

At this point, I really should be talking to my advisor about it. Even if the prose isn't ready to share, the ideas are workable. Before that, though, I'm going to give myself a week to revise some things that stand out to me, in this order:

• add more up front on the technology of Distant Reading, how it works, a kind of media archaeology of the tech.
• flesh out the final analysis of Woolf's text (which depends on the specifics of Disant Reading tech).
• find a way to structurally integrate the close reading of Woolf's text. Interweave with the intro? Maybe starting with a meditation on gender?

In other news, my abstract on this chapter was accepted by the ACH conference. One other abstract (on my second chapter, which I am now in the process of researching) was accepted at MLA, as well as a book article on the same chapter.