/lit/ - Literature

>Jane Austen
>Victor Hugo
>Charles Dickens
>Alexandre Dumas
>Arthur Conan Doyle

Is the classic status of these obviously pleb authors proof that in a century or two their modern day equivalents such as Stephen King and Danielle Steel will go down as "classics"?

If former pulp garbage like Edgar Rice Burroughs and H. P. Lovecraft is now considered great classic literature and is released under "classics" publications with extensive critical commentary, does that mean in the future there will be Oxford World Classics editions of Stephen King novels with notes explaining the pop culture references? Will there be Norton Critical Editions of The Da Vinci Code with critical essays about its importance included?

How do you feel that many "pleb authors" today will be reprinted in scholarly editions in the future, with critics analyzing it and adding explanatory notes to everything? How do you feel that we'll have Oxford World Classics or Norton Critical Editions of Stephen King or Harry Potter books?