Asks readers to consider Jane Austen's happy endings as a 'prophetic' rather than merely 'illusory' answer to the contradiction that feminine subjectivity repre... » 

Asks readers to consider Jane Austen's happy endings as a 'prophetic' rather than merely 'illusory' answer to the contradiction that feminine subjectivity represents for history. It has a happy ending for the feminine subject. But that would be against all the empirical odds. «