Is there-has there ever been- such a thing (I mean "classics") ? There is a "Catholic novel" category (Georges Bernanos, Graham Greene, Walker Percy, Francois Mauriac, Evelyn Waugh, ..), which doesn't include writers who have been Catholics (Cervantes, Hugo, Flaubert, Balzac, Joseph Conrad, Joyce, Musil, Proust, Garcia Marquez, Grass, ..), but whose work doesn't convey what is- sometimes- termed a "Catholic vision".
Sure, numerous great novelists have been Protestants (Defoe, Goethe, Richardson, Dickens, George Eliot, Melville, Hawthorne, Henry James, Faulkner, Thomas Mann,..)- but, are there works that could fit into the category of "Protestant novel" & at the same time retain canonical literary status ?
Sure, numerous great novelists have been Protestants (Defoe, Goethe, Richardson, Dickens, George Eliot, Melville, Hawthorne, Henry James, Faulkner, Thomas Mann,..)- but, are there works that could fit into the category of "Protestant novel" & at the same time retain canonical literary status ?
