When I saw such goodness in my RSS, I knew it had to be you.
If I haven't considered Flaubert for such a long time, it's because I was waiting for a work such as yours. Somehow I think of how much Nietzsche loved Stendhal. A future project?
My recent discovery of Flaubert, was some notes of his to Hegel's Aesthetics. Perhaps you'd find them interesting:
http://www2.univ-mlv.fr/lisaa/conser...otes_Hegel.pdf