Marie-Christine Skuncke
Professor emeritus at Institutionen för litteraturvetenskap och retorik
- Mobile phone:
- +46 73 630 72 08
- E-mail:
- Marie-Christine.Skuncke@littvet.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Engelska parken, Thunbergsvägen 3 P
- Postal address:
- Box 632
751 26 UPPSALA - Available:
- mottagn. e.ö.
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Short presentation
Marie-Christine Skuncke, Professor of Literature at Uppsala University, emerita since 2016. In my research, I focus on various aspects of the Swedish eighteenth century - theatre and opera, education of princes, political culture, natural history - in a European and global perspective. I have been actively involved in international eighteenth-century cooperation. Founder and chair of the Uppsala Interdisciplinary Seminar in Eighteenth-Century Studies, 1995-2016.
Biography
CV: see above, Short Presentation
Uppsala Interdisciplinary Seminar in Eighteenth-Century Studies
Founder and chair 1995-2016 of the Uppsala Interdisciplinary Seminar in Eighteenth-Century Studies (Tvärvetenskapligt 1700-talsseminarium i Uppsala), a forum for eighteenth-century scholars across geographical, disciplinary and generational boundaries. Speakers included over 200 Swedish and international scholars from a range of disciplines. The seminar was chaired by Professor Ann Öhrberg 2017-2021. From autumn 2021 it is chaired by Professor Otto Fischer.
Research
Research Interests
Eighteenth-century Sweden in a European and global perspective, especially theatre and opera, education of princes, political culture, media history; Carl Peter Thunberg’s voyage to Japan in the 1770s and eighteenth-century natural history. Recent articles include a study of the genesis of the first Swedish Freedom of the Press Act in 1766 (English version in Press Freedom 250 Years, 2018), a study of the Swedish-Finnish-Russian naturalist Eric Laxman and his contacts with Japan (in English, Svenska Linnésällskapets Årsskrift 2018), and a study of the Swedish king Gustav III's medal history and that of Louis XIV (in French, 2023).
2021: Online Editions and Edited Monograph
Two monographs in Swedish from the 1990s are now available online:
- Gustaf III. Det offentliga barnet. En prins retoriska och politiska fostran (Stockholm: Atlantis, 1993), in Litteraturbanken: https://litteraturbanken.se/f%C3%B6rfattare/SkunckeMC/titlar/GustafIII/sida/7/faksimil?om-boken
- Svenska operans födelse. Studier i gustaviansk musikdramatik (with Anna Ivarsdotter, Stockholm: Atlantis, 1998), online publications of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music: https://www.musikaliskaakademien.se/verksamhet/publikationer/publikationer/musikhistoria/musikhistoria/svenskaoperansfodelse.3355.html
Edited Monograph: Co-editor, posthumous edition: Barbro Klein, I tosaforornas värld. Gustav berättar [In a Flapdoodle World: Gustav's Storytelling], eds. Georg Drakos, Marie-Christine Skuncke et al. (Stockholm: Carlsson Bokförlag, 2021): http://www.carlssonbokforlag.se/produkt/i-tosaforornas-varld/
Literary translation:
I have translated into Swedish verse the libretto of the French 18th century opera Dardanus by Jean-Philippe Rameau, which was produced at Confidencen (the Ulriksdal Palace Theatre near Stockholm) in summer 2023: https://confidencen.se/dardanus-libretto/
Versailles Database:
Database "Les Visiteurs de Versailles", https://chateauversailles-recherche.fr/francais/ressources-documentaires/bases-de-donnees-en-ligne/base-visiteurs-de-versailles: Notices in French about Swedish eighteenth-century visitors to Versailles and translations into French of their descriptions (entered 2019).
Work in Progress
- A stage director on the throne: Gustav III's historical drama Gustaf Adolph och Ebba Brahe, 1784, conference paper.
- Tragedy in mid-eighteenth-century Sweden, article.
Lectures and Talks Online
Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS), Uppsala: "Carl Peter Thunberg, Japan och Linneanum", talk in Swedish, Kulturnatten 16 September 2016: http://www.swedishcollegium.se/subfolders/Books&Lectures/View_Lectures.html. The talk begins after c. 12 minutes.
Centre de recherche du Château de Versailles: "L'Histoire métallique de Gustave III de Suède et ses sources dans celle de Louis XIV", paper in French, audio recording from the symposium "Les médailles de Louis XIV et leur livre", 2018: https://chateauversailles-recherche.fr/francais/colloques-et-journees-d-etudes/archives-1996-2020/colloques-et-journees-d-etudes-2018/les-medailles-de-louis-xiv-et-leur-livre.html
Uppsala Forum on Democracy, Peace and Justice: Lecture in English on Peter Forsskål and his Tankar om borgerlig frihet (Thoughts on Civil Liberty) 1759, at the symposium "Thinking Enlightenment" 2 December 2020: https://www.uppsalaforum.uu.se/forsskal-symposium-/thinking-enlightenment/. The lecture begins after c. 19.30 minutes.
Publications
Recent publications
- L'histoire métallique de Gustave III de Suède et celle de Louis XIV (2023)
- Bellman och teatern (2022)
- Exlibris för Franska spektaklets bibliotek under Gustav III (2022)
- I tosaforornas värld (2021)
- Henrik Horstbøll, Ulrik Langen & Frederik Stjernfelt, Grov konfækt – Tre vilde år med trykkefrihed 1770-73 (København: Gyldendal, 2020). Vol. I, 513 s., II, 559 s. (2021)
All publications
Articles
- Bellman och teatern (2022)
- Exlibris för Franska spektaklets bibliotek under Gustav III (2022)
- Henrik Horstbøll, Ulrik Langen & Frederik Stjernfelt, Grov konfækt – Tre vilde år med trykkefrihed 1770-73 (København: Gyldendal, 2020). Vol. I, 513 s., II, 559 s. (2021)
- Teatern i Vasaborgen (2020)
- Olof von Dalin, Samlade skrifter. Första delen: 2, Poesi, samt Andra delen: 2, Kommentar till poesi. Red. Ingemar Carlsson, James Massengale, Gun Carlsson och Barbro Ståhle Sjönell. Svenska författare utgivna av Svenska Vitterhetssamfundet, XXVI. Svenska Vitterhetssamfundet, Stockholm 2017 samt 2018. (2020)
- Suède, Europe, Japon (2018)
- Scientific Relations between Sweden, Russia and Japan in the 1790s (2018)
- Recension av Alfred Sjödin, Landets SångGudinna. Johan Gabriel Oxenstierna och naturdiktens genrer (2017)
- Recension av Jonathan Lamb, Scurvy: The Disease of Discovery, Princeton University Press 2017 (2017)
- Recension av Helene Blomqvist, Nordenflychts nej. Ett upplysningsreligiöst spänningsfält och dess litterära manifestationer (2016)
- Gustave III de Suède et l'Opéra (2009)
- Carl Peter Thunbergs japanska resa i 1770- och 1780-talens medier (2008)
- Recension av: Hanne Lauvstad, Helicons bierge og Helgelands schiær. Nordlands Trompets tekst, repertoar og retorikk, diss., Oslo 2006 (2007)
- Recension av: James Mulvihill, Upstart Talents: Rhetoric and the Career of Reason in English Romantic Discourse, 1790-1820, Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2004 (2007)
- Om nödvändigheten av tvärvetenskap (2007)
- Recension av Stefan Ekman: "I skuggan af Din Graf, jag på min Lyra slår" (2005)
- Carl Gustaf af Leopold, Samlade skrifter, Förra avdelningen, Andra delen: Dikter 1785–1829, utgivna av Torkel Stålmarck, band 1, Text, och 2, Kommentar (Svenska författare utgivna av Svenska Vitterhetssamfundet, II) (2004)
- Rec. av Kenneth Nyberg, Bilder av Mittens rike (2004)
- Mats Malm, Textens auktoritet. De första svenska romanernas villkor (2003)
- Stellan Arvidson, Harmens diktare. Thorild II. Carlssons 1993 (1994)
- Un prince suédois auteur français (1992)
- Tableaux de Paris et de la Cour de France 1739-1742. Lettres inédites de Carl Gustaf, comte de Tessin. Edition par Gunnar von Proschwitz. Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis. - Jean Touzot, Paris, 1983. - Gustave III par ses lettres. Edition par Gunnar von Proschwitz. Bicentenaire de 1’Académie suédoise. Svenska Akademiens handlingar 1986:8. Norstedts, Stockholm - Jean Touzot, Paris, 1986 (1988)
- Carl Jonas Love Almqvist - prophète ou Protée? (1988)
- Replik till Birgitta Holm (1986)
- Fredrika Bremer, kornetten Carl och Iphigenia (1984)
- Kurt Johannesson, Svensk retorik från Stockholms blodbad till Almedalen (1983)
Books
- I tosaforornas värld (2021)
- Carl Peter Thunberg, Botanist and Physician (2014)
- Media and Political Culture in the Eigteenth Century (2005)
- Centre(s) et périphérie(s): Les Lumières de Belfast à Beijing / Centre(s) and Margins: Enlightenment from Belfast to Beijing (2003)
- Riksdag, kaffehus och predikstol: Frihetstidens politiska kultur 1766-1772 (Parliament, coffee-house and pulpit: Political culture in Sweden's Age of liberty 1766-1772) (2003)
- Svenska operans födelse. Studier i gustaviansk musikdramatik (1998)
- Gustaf III - Det offentliga barnet (1993)
- Sweden and European drama 1772-1796 (1981)
Chapters
- L'histoire métallique de Gustave III de Suède et celle de Louis XIV (2023)
- Press Freedom in the Riksdag 1760-62 and 1765-66 (2018)
- Elsa Fougt, Ellen Sofia Wester (2018)
- Carl Peter Thunberg and Japan [in English and in Japanese] (2018)
- Deux cosmopolites suédois au XVIIIe siècle (2018)
- Peter Lindahl, 1712-1792 (2018)
- Att skapa transparens i statens styre (2017)
- Tryckfriheten i riksdagen 1760-62 och 1765-66 (2016)
- Didric Gabriel Björn (1757-1838) (2016)
- Carl Peter Thunberg och Anders Sparrman (2012)
- Freedom of the press and social equality in Sweden, 1766-1772 (2011)
- Appropriations of Political Rhetoric in Eighteenth-Century Sweden (2011)
- Carl Peter Thunberg (2010)
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Swedish eyes around 1760 (2008)
- Linnaeus (2008)
- Ellen Wester, 1873-1930 (2008)
- Frihetstidens teaterliv i Stockholm (2007)
- Gustaviansk teater (2007)
- Teater och opera (2006)
- Introduction (2005)
- Press and political culture in Sweden at the end of the Age of liberty (2004)
- Medier, retorik och känslor (2004)
- Skjöldebrand, Eric (2004)
- Was There a Swedish Enlightenment (2003)
- La liberté dans la culture politique suédoise au XVIIIe siècle (2003)
- Gustav III; Kellgren, Johan Henric; Lovisa Ulrika (2003)
- Lovisa Ulrikas brevväxling med utländska författare och lärda (Lovisa Ulrika's correspondence with foreign writers and scholars) (2003)
- Medier, mutor och nätverk (Media, money and networks) (2003)
- Stanislaus Augustus Poniatowski and Gustav III (2002)
- Gustav III's Formative Years, Gustav III and the Theatre (1999)
- Gustav III:s uppväxt 1746-1771, Gustav III och dramatiken (1998)
- L'éducation d'un roi, Le théâtre gustavien (1994)
- Uppfostringsverket, Gustavianskt teaterliv (1993)
- The Unknown Ellen Wester (1990)
- Eliza Orzeszkowa and the Nobel Prize (1988)
- Körsbär och krigspropaganda (1987)
Conferences
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