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‘Queer Reverence’: Aubrey Beardsley’s Venus and Tannhäuser
Published 2019-12-01“…The decision to restrict the setting to the Venusberg thus effects a dramatic shift in the significance of both this erotic playground and the narrative as a whole; the former is no longer the sinful ‘before’ that must be renounced to achieve the penitent ‘after’ and, as a result, Beardsley’s Tannhäuser doesn’t need to be redeemed and his story ceases to be a conversion narrative. …”
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