Abstract
This essay addresses arguments from Derrida's ‘Force of Law: “The Mystical Foundation of Authority”’ in order to formulate an alternative approach to ‘law in literature’ which could be called ‘literature as law’. Its main interest lies in the way literary texts use the critical representation of law and legal rhetoric to establish the superiority of their own rhetoric and the laws of ‘literary evidence’. As an example, the essay will discuss central passages from James F. Cooper's The Pioneers (1823).
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