Introduction [excerpt] My thesis will argue that [Jane] Austen remains a critical rhetorical voice, one that has been reinvented through the centuries up to the present day and is still relevant and being reinterpreted currently. Essentially, I hope to contribute to the project of understanding the emerging "rhetorical self" of Austen, by building on the work of James Kastely, alongside others, in order to claim that there is still more we can learn about Jane Austen, and ourselves, by exploring how...