This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in English: Journal of the English Association following peer review. The version of record Henrickson, L., 2020. Close Reading with Computers: Textual Scholarship, Computational Formalism, and David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas. By Martin Paul Eve. English: Journal of the English Association, 69(265, pp. 194-7 is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/english/efz050