This book proposes a new interdisciplinary approach to the gendered power relations in James¿s novels. Reading James¿s narrative form through the lens of relational sociology, specifically Pierre Bourdieüs concept of symbolic domination, reconciles some of the most fiercely disputed positions in James studies of the past decades. The close readings focus on three novels, The Portrait of a Lady, The Wings of the Dove, and The Golden Bowl, providing a systematic relational analysis into the specifically Jamesian method of narrating the socio-psychological, embodied responses to masculine power and oppression. James persistently narrates his characters as social agents whose perception, affects, and bodily practices are products of