Critics often comment on the importance of landscape in Wuthering Heights, and in this edition, Christopher Heywood locates the text more precisely than previous editions amid Yorkshire's limestone north and moorland south, drawing out the importance of the region's slaveholding society.

Heywood also makes an important contribution to scholarship arguing persuasively for a re-structuring of the chapter and section breaks.

Finally, this edition includes a variety of appendices that help to illuminate the novel's historical background.