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The purpose of this study is to conceptualize the "conservative novel" in the social conditions that exist as a literary form. The conservative novel is divided in important points from similarities as the nationalist novel, the Islamic novel. In the study, it is claimed that the original form of the fundamental determinant of the conservative novel is the original form that arises in the process of modernization, while taking its current names due to the content of other types of novels. This form has both literary qualities and has been formed by historical sociological dynamics. In the example of the four novels of Peyami Safa for the conceptualization of the conservative novel, a two-step analysis was made by the method developed by the literary sociologist Franco Moretti. In the first phase, the novel was formally analyzed, and in the second phase, the historical context that influenced the formation of this form was analyzed. As a result, the formally appearance of the conservative novel has been emphasized that the experience of conservation emerging in the Republic and subsequent period is related to the paternalist character that develops in a dialectic relationship with Kemalism.