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 she has been reinvented to suit our modern rhetorical needs. First, I intend to review and analyze what rhetorical scholars have had to say about Austen along with what feminist rhetorical theorists have had to say about how to approach recovery of significant female figures. The next step will consist of a brief glance at Austen's novels in order to ascertain whether utilizing the feminist historiographical lens of Kirsch and Royster reveals anything significant or new regarding their ideas of the nature of rhetoric. The final section will return to Pride Prejudice and Zombies and build an argument in favor of accepting the current socially circulating modern reinterpretation as actually containing certain nuances of Austen's distinctive rhetorical vision and then it will apply,[sic] that vision to current concerns and apprehensions of modern society and culture. Answering these questions solidifies not only Jane Austen's rhetorical significance, but exemplifies how she has maintained rhetorical significance and literary capital over the centuries and is still extremely rhetorically germane today as seen through many modern reinterpretations. I will conclude by considering whether this project can also be used to help educators understand how they can use modern reinventions to help students understand Austen in a new way to suit a new time.