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
Bourdieu's 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 the social structures that they in turn
continue to shape and reproduce. The chapters trace a development
throughout James's career that reflects a growing sensitivity for
the concealment and attendant misrecognition of gendered
domination.
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