The paper analyzes the ways of manifesting space in five novels by Henry James (The Portrait of a Lady, The Bostonians, The Wings of the Dove, The Ambassadors, and The Golden Bowl) based on existing sociological and semiotic theories about space. Thus, the paper will point out the inseparability of material and mental conceptions of space, its denotative and connotative properties, but also the social characteristics that are based on the habitus each character brings to the plot. The above implies looking into the locations where the characters are and go, and the ways in which they inscribe their own meanings in those places, while simultaneously decoding the found signifiers that can be a product of the physical and/or the social. A special emphasis will be placed on the ways of experiencing space, given that the main characters are Americans who, during the course of the literary action, are in a European setting. Additionally, regarding some novels, the paper will highlight whether society dominates space or vice versa, and what implications this brings with it for the character’s habitus and social roles within multiple relationships. Finally, the paper will conclude what the works of Henry James mean for the definition of space and its formation, and how literary activity conveys the experience of space in everyday life.