- African American Literature (General Collections)
- Africana studies and African American studies special collections
- Afrofuturism
- American Poetry Review Records
- American studies, history, and literature: Modern period
- American studies, history, and literature: North America, colonial era to ca. 1800
- Banned Books Collection
- Caroline F. Schimmel Fiction Collection of Women in the American Wilderness
- Collection of British and American Fiction, 1660-1830
- Comics and Graphic Novels Collection
- Edwin Forrest Library and collection
- Francis Hopkinson collections
- Gotham Book Mart Collection
- Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (Furness Shakespeare Library)
- Immigrant and Refugee Experiences in Children’s and Young Adult Literature
- Immigrant Literature
- James T. Farrell collection
- Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References
- Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books
- Mark B. Adams Science Fiction Collection
- Printing and publishing history
- Ross Bible Collection
- Short Title Catalogue (STC) Collection of early English printed books to 1640
- Theodore Dreiser Collection
- Waldo Frank papers
- Walt Whitman Collections
Literature in English Collection
The Literature in English Collection encompasses works of and commentary on fiction, poetry, and literary prose from around the globe.
Overview
While the Literature in English Collection is strongest in American and British literature, Penn has increasingly collected literature from the international English-speaking community, including from India, English-speaking African nations, Canada, and Australia.
Accordion List
- A. H. Scouten Memorial Fund
- Class of 1894 Fund
- Clyde de Loache Ryals Endowed Acquisition Fund
- David Milne Fund
- J. Bertram Lippincott Library Fund
- John Louis Haney Fund
- John, Ruth, and Sally Ruth MacCorkell Fund
- Judith Greenblatt Endowment Fund
- Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund
- Tom Farinholt and Blair Edlow Memorial Book Fund