Goodbye woods, Hello Jungle

Been trying to think of a new way to do something with the idea of a magical wood. But it’s trying to think of something original to do with it, that’s the tough idea. Something that came up while I was pondering was, did Victorian popular culture began to replace the wood with the jungle? It might have started with ‘The Island of Dr. Moreau’ and ‘Heart of Darkness’ and progressed throughout the century. The idea that the jungle strips away civilisation and causes a reversion to savagery, continued in the stories ‘The Most Dangerous Game’ and ‘Lord of the Flies’. So the jungle takes over from the wood as the idea of wilderness. Well it’s a theory.