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Adaptation studies as a field has repeatedly been prone to such misleading and subjective vocabulary, as the often contested mode of fidelity criticism demonstrates through its recourse to a moralizing and sometimes gendered stance. 3 Yet the metaphor of finance, through its association with the image of circulation, proves key to this special number’s theorization of adaptation on a number of levels. As the articles here collectively underline, source texts circulate in adapted form and gain new currency, different purchase and additional cultural values in new contexts, eras, and media. Specific authors circulate widely in specific media in associations which underline the natural affinities that link certain writers with certain media. The source texts of these authors, far from being static originals to be protected at all costs as sacrosanct spaces of origin, themselves often adapt other texts and art forms. Other works …