tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7459020489719069582.post4712601608092651372..comments2024-01-15T11:16:48.226+01:00Comments on Magia Posthuma: A Financial NightmareNiels K. Petersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10136109970711449111noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7459020489719069582.post-8498345009715182442013-08-11T19:21:47.305+02:002013-08-11T19:21:47.305+02:00Christopher Frayling and Martin Myrone wrote a sho...<b>Christopher Frayling</b> and <b>Martin Myrone</b> wrote a short essay on <i>The Nightmare in Modern Culture</i> for the catalogue from Tate's 2006 exhibition <b>Gothic Nightmares: Fuseli, Blake and the Romantic Imagination</b>, in which they claim that the sequence in the novel <i>'itself may have been based on a recollection of Fuseli's painting or a print of it. Shelley's description of the chilling scene of the creature fulfilling his prophecy ('I shall be with you on your wedding-night') directly echoes that image.'</i>Niels K. Petersenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10136109970711449111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7459020489719069582.post-59500594138933679072013-08-11T18:31:58.008+02:002013-08-11T18:31:58.008+02:00A scene in James Whale's "Frankenstein&qu...A scene in James Whale's "Frankenstein" (1931) is based on this painting and has Karloff's monster enter Elizabeth's chamber. David J. Skal's documentary "The Frankenstein Files: How Hollywood Made a Monster" (2002) notes that there's no way the monster could even know whose house it is, but that plot hole fades away if in the spirit of Fuseli's painting we perceive the scene as Elizabeth's nightmare. Anyway, the painting clearly belongs on a wall in my bedroom!Nicolas Barbanohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14150860183549922961noreply@blogger.com