If Cloud Atlas is any guide, one of the best ways to sound like a bygone novelist is to make your narrator sound like a racist.

Martin Paul Eve
Martin Paul Eve is professor of literature, technology, and publishing at Birkbeck, University of London. He holds a PhD from the University of Sussex and is the author or editor of seven books. Eve is a recipient of the KU Leuven Medal of Honor and a winner of the Philip Leverhulme Prize.