Alongside the recent cultural turn in the humanities there has been a noticeable return to
ethical considerations. With regard to literature as well as other media this has rekindled
awareness of a tension antagonism or even disparity between ethics and aesthetics.This volume
of articles takes a more systematic and cross-disciplinary approach to the widely mooted
ethical turn in literature and other media than has been pursued so far. It brings together a
wide range of critical perspectives from literary studies media and cultural memory studies
and philosophy tracing the complex and sometimes conflicting relationship between ethics and
aesthetics in theoretical contexts and individual case studies as diverse as colonial
architecture nineteenth-century literary histories and postmodern writing and art.
