"The Jungle Books": Rudyard Kipling's Lamarckian Fantasy Author(s): ALLEN MACDUFFIE Source: PMLA, Vol. 129, No. 1 (January 2014), pp. 18-34 Published by: Modern Language Association Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/24769419 Accessed: 08-04-2020 06:50 UTC JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact
[email protected]. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at https://about.jstor.org/terms Modern Language Association is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to PMLA This content downloaded from 223.190.116.94 on Wed, 08 Apr 2020 06:50:09 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms PMLA The Jungle Books: Rudyard Kipling's Lamarckian Fantasy ALLEN MACDUFFIE ling's second Jungle Book (1895), hinges on Mowgli's attempt to THE PLOT save his OFsurrogate "RED family, DOG" the Seonee THE Wolf PENULTIMATE Pack, from a ram STORY IN RUDYARD Kip paging horde of wild dogs. Perched on the branch of a tree, Mow gli taunts the dogs (known as "dholes") until the leader of the pack makes a mistake: "At last, made furious beyond his natural strength, he bounded up seven or eight feet clear of the ground. Then Mowgli's hand shot out like the head of a tree-snake, and gripped him by the scruff of his neck...