1. The Roman-Fleuve: Flooding the Boundaries of the Novel -- 2. The Palliser Novels: Trollope's Nineteenth-Century Proto-Roman-Fleuve -- 3. Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage: Writing the Consummate Flow -- 4. Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time: A Text of Arrested Desire -- Epilogue. The Evolution of the Roman-Fleuve and the Canonical Novel