What's This Literary Genre Called?

[Zulk-Dharma]

I am looking for the name of a literary genre where the purpose of the book is to address some individual subjects with an author's viewpoints that he tries to defend.

For an analogy, a book defending the claim why Holocaust is a hoax and making many arguments in support for such a claim or likewise, usually addressing a controversial issue.

The book usually addresses one issue, but it isn't restricted to that and may address various of issues.

However, the issues must be the focus of the book, not a side note chapter.

What is the genre I am looking for here?

Books that I know of that fits to the criteria are the following:
Moses and Monotheism by Sigmund Freud.

It's trying to make the argument that Moses was an Egyptian Atenist priest and that Exodus did indeed take place. The whole book is basically that, addressing such a topic with those arguments in support for it.
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin.

This is a book dedicated to address the possibility of evolution and creates arguments in support for this worldview. The whole book mainly address this one issue.
Jesus in India by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad.

This book argues that Jesus did in fact survive crucifixion and fled to India and died there. He uses arguments to support his viewpoint and addresses counter arguments and other issues within the main subject.

I've tried to look for the genre, and until now, I've found three possible ones and I am confused what the differences are.

1st. Treatise.
2nd. Essay.
3rd. Monograph.

Can someone tell which one of those genres I am looking for or if it is any of those at all?

 

[GoodbyeDave]

The essential point about your examples is that they put forward a new idea and what they claim to be evidence for it, and I don't know any one word for that.

Treatise: a substantial work, systematically covering all aspects of a broad subject.
Monograph: leaned work, sometimes short, on a very specific topic.
Paper: a brief work, learned in character, published in a journal.
Essay: a brief work: either covering a topic in an interesting way for a non-specialist audience, or a work by a student designed to reveal their knowledge to their teacher.

The nearest for your purpose would be "monograph", since all three cover a very specific topic — Origin of Species shows the evidence for evolution rather than setting out all Darwin could have said on the subject.

 

[Zulk-Dharma]

Thanks for your help, I really appreciate it.

It really seems like my definition is partially covered by all those terms.

A brief or lengthy book addresses a specific subject (sometimes a variety of subjects in one book) in an interesting way for a non-specialist audience to comprehend.

I feel like it's either a monograph or a treatise, but it doesn't need to cover all aspects of a broad subject.

 

[Augustus]

I am looking for the name of a literary genre where the purpose of the book is to address some individual subjects with an author's viewpoints that he tries to defend.

Apologetic

 

[Zulk-Dharma]

Apologetic

Maybe I didn't express myself eloquently in that quotation. But would you claim that "On the Origin of Species" by Charles Darwin is an apologetic literature or part of such a genre?

 

[Iti oj]

Maybe I didn't express myself eloquently in that quotation. But would you claim that "On the Origin of Species" by Charles Darwin is an apologetic literature or part of such a genre?

No try simply none fiction. Edit and that example would be science as well and classic

 

[Zulk-Dharma]

Thanks, you've all answered my question now. The genre is called non-fiction and treatise or a combination of the two.